deploy_repo: Deploy a Git Repository

In connectapi: Utilities for Interacting with the 'Posit Connect' Server API

Deploy a Git Repository

Description

Deploy a git repository directly to Posit Connect, using Posit Connect's "pull-based" "git-polling" method of deployment.

Usage

deploy_repo(
  client,
  repository,
  branch,
  subdirectory,
  name = create_random_name(),
  title = name,
  ...
)

deploy_repo_enable(content, enabled = TRUE)

deploy_repo_update(content)

Arguments

client	A Connect R6 object
repository	The git repository to deploy
branch	The git branch to deploy
subdirectory	The subdirectory to deploy (must contain a manifest.json)
name	The "name" / unique identifier for the content. Defaults to a random character string
title	The "title" of the content
...	Additional options for defining / specifying content attributes
content	An R6 Content object (i.e. the result of content_item())
enabled	Whether Connect will enable automatic polling for repository updates

Details

• deploy_repo_enable() enables (or disables) Posit Connect's git polling for a piece of content

• deploy_repo_update() triggers an update of the content from its git repository, if any are present

Value

A ContentTask object, for use with poll_task() (if you want to follow the logs)

See Also

connectapi::poll_task, connectapi::repo_check_branches, connectapi::repo_check_manifest_dirs

Other content functions: content_delete(), content_item(), content_title(), content_update(), create_random_name(), dashboard_url(), delete_thumbnail(), delete_vanity_url(), get_associations(), get_bundles(), get_environment(), get_image(), get_job(), get_jobs(), get_log(), get_thumbnail(), get_vanity_url(), git, has_thumbnail(), lock_content(), permissions, search_content(), set_image_path(), set_integrations(), set_run_as(), set_thumbnail(), set_vanity_url(), swap_vanity_url(), swap_vanity_urls(), terminate_jobs(), verify_content_name()

connectapi documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 7:32 p.m.