Create a branch
Usage
branch_create(commit = last_commit(), name = NULL, force = FALSE)Arguments
- commit
Commit to which the branch should point. The default is to use the
last_commit()function to determine the commit to which the branch should point.- name
Name for the branch
- force
Overwrite existing branch. Default = FALSE
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
## Initialize a temporary repository
path <- tempfile(pattern="git2r-")
dir.create(path)
repo <- init(path)
## Create a user and commit a file
config(repo, user.name = "Alice", user.email = "alice@example.org")
lines <- "Hello world!"
writeLines(lines, file.path(path, "example.txt"))
add(repo, "example.txt")
commit_1 <- commit(repo, "First commit message")
## Create a branch
branch_1 <- branch_create(commit_1, name = "test-branch")
## Add one more commit
lines <- c("Hello world!", "HELLO WORLD!")
writeLines(lines, file.path(path, "example.txt"))
add(repo, "example.txt")
commit_2 <- commit(repo, "Another commit message")
## Create a branch with the same name should fail
try(branch_create(commit_2, name = "test-branch"), TRUE)
## Force it
branch_2 <- branch_create(commit_2, name = "test-branch", force = TRUE)
} # }