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In Dulwich, how do I commit to a branch instead of to HEAD?

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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6904...

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Creating a Commit object manually and then setting the tag is indeed the only way to commit to a non-HEAD branch in the last release.

do_commit() in trunk supports a "ref" argument that you can use to commit to other branches.

http://www.samba.org/~jelmer/dulwich/apidocs/dulwich.repo.BaseRepo.html#do_commit