Clone a revision of a Git Repo and create a ZIP file

git_zip.py

from dulwich.client import get_transport_and_path
from dulwich.repo import Repo
import shutil

git_url = "https://github.com/dpaws/microtrader.git"
git_revision = "54dcd9f5b557af87ec1132f62b9c6bbdfc01a2f5"

local = Repo.init(b"local", mkdir=True)
client, path = get_transport_and_path(git_url)
remote_refs = client.fetch(path, local, determine_wants=local.object_store.determine_wants_all)
remote_refs[b"refs/heads/master"] = remote_refs[b"HEAD"] = git_revision
local.refs.import_refs(b'refs/remotes/origin',{n[len(b'refs/heads/'):]: v for (n, v) in remote_refs.items() if n.startswith(b'refs/heads/')})
local.refs.import_refs(b'refs/tags',{n[len(b'refs/tags/'):]: v for (n, v) in remote_refs.items() if n.startswith(b'refs/tags/')})
local[b"HEAD"] = remote_refs[b"HEAD"]
local.reset_index()

shutil.make_archive('local','zip','local')