It appears that with libgit2 v0.24.6 reverse causes it to list them
newest first. In 0.25.1 it lists them oldest first. On both versions
just using SortMode.TIME gives the desired result of oldest first.
The lorax-composer program will launch a BDCS compatible API server
using Flask and Gevent. Currently this is a skeleton application with
only one active route (/api/v0/status).
The API code lives in ./src/pylorax/api/v0.py with related code in other
pylorax/api/* modules.