import time def by_first_commit(item): """Order two changesets by their first commit date.""" return item['first_commit'] def convert_blame_to_changesets(blame_json): """Convert a blame dict into a list of changesets. The blame information in `blame_json` should be a dict of the following structure: { 'authors': [ 'A.N. Author ', ], 'blame': { 'path/one': { 'key1': [0, 1346095921.0], }, } } It will be transformed into a list of changesets which can be fed into `InternalContext.serialize_changeset`: [ { 'author': 'A.N. Author ', 'first_commit': 1346095921.0, 'changes': { ('path/one', 'key1'), } }, ] """ now = time.time() changesets = [ { 'author': author, 'first_commit': now, 'changes': set() } for author in blame_json['authors'] ] for path, keys_info in blame_json['blame'].items(): for key, (author_index, timestamp) in keys_info.items(): changeset = changesets[author_index] changeset['changes'].add((path, key)) if timestamp < changeset['first_commit']: changeset['first_commit'] = timestamp return sorted(changesets, key=by_first_commit)