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Introduction

The git2r package gives you programmatic access to Git repositories from R. Internally the package uses the libgit2 library which is a pure C implementation of the Git core methods. For more information about libgit2, check out libgit2's website (http://libgit2.github.com).

Suggestions, bugs, forks and pull requests are appreciated. Get in touch.

Installation

To install the version available on CRAN:

install.packages("git2r")

To install the development version of git2r, it's easiest to use the devtools package:

# install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("ropensci/git2r")

Another alternative is to use git and make

$ git clone https://github.com/ropensci/git2r.git
$ cd git2r
$ make install

Usage

Repository

The central object in the git2r package is the S4 class git_repository. The following three methods can instantiate a repository; init, repository and clone.

Create a new repository

Create a new repository in a temporary directory using init

library(git2r)
#> Loading required package: methods

## Create a temporary directory to hold the repository
path <- tempfile(pattern="git2r-")
dir.create(path)

## Initialize the repository
repo <- init(path)

## Display a brief summary of the new repository
repo
#> Local:    /tmp/Rtmp7CXPlx/git2r-1ae2305c0e8d/
#> Head:     nothing commited (yet)

## Check if repository is bare
is_bare(repo)
#> [1] FALSE

## Check if repository is empty
is_empty(repo)
#> [1] TRUE

Create a new bare repository

## Create a temporary directory to hold the repository
path <- tempfile(pattern="git2r-")
dir.create(path)

## Initialize the repository
repo <- init(path, bare=TRUE)

## Check if repository is bare
is_bare(repo)
#> [1] TRUE

Clone a repository

## Create a temporary directory to hold the repository
path <- file.path(tempfile(pattern="git2r-"), "git2r")
dir.create(path, recursive=TRUE)

## Clone the git2r repository
repo <- clone("https://github.com/ropensci/git2r", path)
#> cloning into '/tmp/Rtmp7CXPlx/git2r-1ae27d811539/git2r'...
#> Receiving objects:   1% (24/2329),   12 kb
#> Receiving objects:  11% (257/2329),   60 kb
#> Receiving objects:  21% (490/2329),  100 kb
#> Receiving objects:  31% (722/2329),  125 kb
#> Receiving objects:  41% (955/2329),  237 kb
#> Receiving objects:  51% (1188/2329),  574 kb
#> Receiving objects:  61% (1421/2329), 1014 kb
#> Receiving objects:  71% (1654/2329), 1350 kb
#> Receiving objects:  81% (1887/2329), 1733 kb
#> Receiving objects:  91% (2120/2329), 2614 kb
#> Receiving objects: 100% (2329/2329), 2641 kb, done.

## Summary of repository
summary(repo)
#> Remote:   @ origin (https://github.com/ropensci/git2r)
#> Local:    master /tmp/Rtmp7CXPlx/git2r-1ae27d811539/git2r/
#>
#> Branches:          1
#> Tags:              0
#> Commits:         320
#> Contributors:      3
#> Ignored files:     0
#> Untracked files:   0
#> Unstaged files:    0
#> Staged files:      0

## List all references in repository
references(repo)
#> $`refs/heads/master`
#> [6fb440] master
#>
#> $`refs/remotes/origin/master`
#> [6fb440] origin/master

## List all branches in repository
branches(repo)
#> [[1]]
#> [6fb440] (Local) (HEAD) master
#>
#> [[2]]
#> [6fb440] (origin @ https://github.com/ropensci/git2r) master

Open an existing repository

## Open an existing repository
repo <- repository(path)

## Workdir of repository
workdir(repo)
#> [1] "/tmp/Rtmp7CXPlx/git2r-1ae27d811539/git2r/"

## List all commits in repository
commits(repo)[[1]] # Truncated here for readability
#> Commit:  6fb440133765e80649de8d714eaea17b114bd0a7
#> Author:  Stefan Widgren <[email protected]>
#> When:    2014-04-22 21:43:19
#> Summary: Fixed clone progress to end line with newline

## Get HEAD of repository
head(repo)
#> [6fb440] (Local) (HEAD) master

## Check if HEAD is head
is_head(head(repo))
#> [1] TRUE

## Check if HEAD is local
is_local(head(repo))
#> [1] TRUE

## List all tags in repository
tags(repo)
#> list()

Configuration

config(repo, user.name="Git2r Readme", user.email="[email protected]")

## Display configuration
config(repo)
#> global:
#>         core.autocrlf=input
#> local:
#>         branch.master.merge=refs/heads/master
#>         branch.master.remote=origin
#>         core.bare=false
#>         core.filemode=true
#>         core.logallrefupdates=true
#>         core.repositoryformatversion=0
#>         remote.origin.fetch=+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
#>         remote.origin.url=https://github.com/ropensci/git2r
#>         [email protected]
#>         user.name=Git2r Readme

Commit

## Create a new file
writeLines("Hello world!", file.path(path, "test.txt"))

## Add file and commit
add(repo, "test.txt")
commit(repo, "Commit message")
#> Commit:  0a6af48cedf43208bde34230662280514e0956eb
#> Author:  Git2r Readme <[email protected]>
#> When:    2014-04-22 21:44:57
#> Summary: Commit message

Included software

  • The C library libgit2. See inst/AUTHORS for the authors of libgit2.

  • The libgit2 library has been modified, e.g. to use the R printing and error routines, and to use runif instead of rand.

License

The git2r package is licensed under the GPLv2. See these files for additional details:

  • LICENSE - git2r package license (GPLv2)
  • inst/COPYING - Copyright notices for additional included software