Functions for managing local git repositories

• local_repo_clone - Clones a GitHub repository to a local directory.

• local_repo_add - Equivalent to git add - stages a file in a local repository.

• local_repo_commit - Equivalent to git commit - commits staged files in a local repository.

• local_repo_push - Equivalent to git push - push a local repository.

• local_repo_pull - Equivalent to git pull - pull a local repository.

• local_repo_branch - Equivalent to git branch - create a branch in a local repository.

• local_repo_log - Equivalent to git log - returns a data frame for git log entries.

local_repo_add(repo_dir, files = ".")

local_repo_branch(repo_dir, branch)

local_repo_clone(
  repo,
  local_path = ".",
  branch = "master",
  mirror = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

local_repo_commit(repo_dir, message)

local_repo_log(repo_dir, max = 100)

local_repo_pull(repo_dir, branch = "master", verbose = FALSE)

local_repo_push(
  repo_dir,
  remote = "origin",
  branch = "master",
  force = FALSE,
  prompt = TRUE,
  mirror = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

repo_dir	Vector of repo directories or a single directory containing one or more repos.
files	Files to be staged
branch	Repository branch to use.
repo	GitHub repo address with the form owner/name.
local_path	Local directory to store cloned repos.
mirror	Equivalent to --mirror
verbose	Display verbose output.
message	Commit message
max	Maximum number of log entries to retrieve per repo.
remote	Repository remote to use.
force	Force push?
prompt	Prompt before force push?

Details

All of these functions depend on the gert library being installed.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
repo = repo_create("ghclass-test", "local_repo_test")

dir = file.path(tempdir(), "repos")
local_repo = local_repo_clone(repo, dir)

local_repo_log(dir)

# Make a local change and push
writeLines("Hello World", file.path(local_repo, "hello.txt"))

local_repo_add(local_repo, "hello.txt")

local_repo_commit(local_repo, "Added hello world")

local_repo_push(local_repo)

repo_commits(repo)

# Pulling remote changes
repo_modify_file(repo, "hello.txt", pattern = ".*",  content = "!!!", method = "after")

local_repo_pull(local_repo)

local_repo_log(dir)

repo_delete("ghclass-test/local_repo_test", prompt=FALSE)
}