gitup_pkg: Update local git repo

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Update local git repo

Description

Update local git repo of your package (e.g. splendid), from a source package. Well, all it does is delete old files, and overcopy any whose MD5 sum has changed; you still have to do all the git bollocks yourself (add/commit/push, in my book). Maybe you should do a "git pull" first before all this, so that you can have the fun of reconciling changes before the extreme fun of "cannot pull; changes..." messages and the inevitable descent into "git push force".

IMO everything is simpler if your R source files are stored individually (function-by-function) because then you can easily see what changed, but the vast and unenlightened hordes disagree with me and plonk it all in one single mega-file, complete with Roxygen "documentation" (don't get me started...). Sigh.

I hate Git, BTW— in case that's not already obvious. This is really for my own use, in conjunction with unpackage, for a way to reconcile my own devel process with Git.

Usage

gitup_pkg(
  pkg,
  gitparent,
  character.only = FALSE,
  excludo='funs.rda')

Arguments

pkg	name of yr task package, as per install_pkg etc (there are various options)
gitparent	folder where yr local git copy lives, or possibly one level higher
character.only	if TRUE, interpret pkg like a normal R variable, not like in library
excludo	files to not copy

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