Introduction to gitr

In gitr: A Lightweight API for 'Git'

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Overview

The gitr package is a light-weight, dependency-free, API to access system-level git commands from within R. Contains wrappers and defaults for common data science workflows as well as Z-shell plugin aliases. Generalized API syntax is also available.

See Git for details about version control.

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Main Features

• The system call wrapper: [git()]

• Common git tasks:

  • committing and commit stack
  • branches
  • pull requests
  • tags
  • situation report

• ZSH git plugin aliases

  • all the common aliases from the ZSH-git-plugin

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Workflows and examples (TODO)

This section will become more fleshed out in future versions of gitr

In the meantime please see the package README

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MIT LICENSE

• See LICENSE
• The MIT License:
• https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
• https://tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license/

gitr documentation built on June 8, 2025, 10:24 a.m.