Remove git-dependency (kedro-org#1284)

RELEASE.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 * Fixed slow startup because of catalog processing by reducing the exponential growth of extra processing during `_FrozenDatasets` creations.
 * Removed `.coveragerc` from the Kedro project template. `coverage` settings are now given in `pyproject.toml`.
 * Fixed a bug where packaging or pulling a modular pipeline with the same name as the project's package name would throw an error (or silently pass without including the pipeline source code in the wheel file).
+* Removed unintentional dependency on `git`.
 
 ## Minor breaking changes to the API
 

kedro/framework/cli/starters.py

@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
 
 import click
-import git
 import yaml
 
 import kedro
@@ -410,6 +409,10 @@ def validate(self, user_input: str) -> None:
 
 
 def _get_available_tags(template_path: str) -> List:
+    # Not at top level so that kedro CLI works without a working git executable.
+    # pylint: disable=import-outside-toplevel
+    import git
+
     try:
         tags = git.cmd.Git().ls_remote("--tags", template_path.replace("git+", ""))