Pretty-print metadata in git commit message

This is useful for manual inspection of the git repository.

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/gdatastore/datastore.py b/gdatastore/datastore.py
index 2378abc..3b77828 100644
--- a/gdatastore/datastore.py
+++ b/gdatastore/datastore.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Gdatastore D-Bus service API
 import hashlib
 import logging
 import os
+import pprint
 import shutil
 from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
 import tempfile
@@ -593,7 +594,7 @@ class InternalApi(object):
                               [_format_ref(tree_id, parent_id)]).strip()
 
     def _format_commit_message(self, metadata):
-        return repr(metadata)
+        return pprint.pformat(to_native(metadata))
 
     def _gen_uuid(self):
         return str(uuid.uuid4())
@@ -660,5 +661,17 @@ def calculate_checksum(path):
         checksum.update(chunk)
 
 
+def to_native(value):
+    if isinstance(value, list):
+        return [to_native(e) for e in value]
+    elif isinstance(value, dict):
+        return dict([(to_native(k), to_native(v)) for k, v in value.items()])
+    elif isinstance(value, unicode):
+        return unicode(value)
+    elif isinstance(value, str):
+        return str(value)
+    return value
+
+
 def _format_ref(tree_id, version_id):
     return 'refs/gdatastore/%s/%s' % (tree_id, version_id)