Git Code Examples — github3.py 4.0.1 documentation (original) (raw)

The GitHub API does not just provide an API to interact with GitHub’s features. A whole section of the API provides a RESTful API to git operations that one might normally perform at the command-line or via your git client.

Creating a Blob Object

One of the really cool (and under used, it seems) parts of the GitHub API involves the ability to create blob objects.

from github3 import login g = login(username, password) repo = g.repository('sigmavirus24', 'Todo.txt-python') sha = repo.create_blob('Testing blob creation', 'utf-8') sha

u'57fad9a39b27e5eb4700f66673ce860b65b93ab8'

blob = repo.blob(sha) blob.content

u'VGVzdGluZyBibG9iIGNyZWF0aW9u\n'

blob.decoded

u'Testing blob creation'

blob.encoding

u'base64'

Creating a Tag Object

GitHub provides tar files for download via tag objects. You can create one viagit tag or you can use the API.

from github3 import login g = login(username, password) repo = g.repository('sigmavirus24', 'github3.py') tag = repo.tag('cdba84b4fede2c69cb1ee246b33f49f19475abfa') tag