ghr: GitHub Releases

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GitHub Releases

Description

Functions to query and manipulate GitHub releases. These functions are currently experimental.

Details

List releases

Description

ghr$list() lists the last 100 releases for a GitHub repository. ghr$async_list() is the async version of ghr$list().

Usage

ghr$list(repo)
ghr$async_list(repo)

Arguments

• repo: repository slug, e.g. "cran/cli".

Value

Data frame with columns:

• id: release id,

• name: release name, usually the version number, possibly with a v prefix: ⁠3.6.1⁠ or v3.6.1, but can be different.

• tag_name: usually the same as name.

• created_at: POSIXct vector.

Get information about a release

Description

ghr$get() downloads information about a release, including release assets.

ghr$async_get is the async version of ghr$get.

Usage

ghr$get(repo, tag)

Arguments

• repo: repository slug, e.g. "cran/cli".

• tag: tag to get.

Value

Named list, see https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/releases#get-a-release for the entries.

List assets of a release

Description

ghr$list_assets() lists the last 100 assets of a release.

ghr$async_list_assets() is the async version of ghr$list_assets()

Usage

ghr$list_assets(repo, tag)

Arguments

• repo: repository slug, e.g. "cran/cli".

• tag: tag to query.

Value

Data frame with columns:

• id: asset id,

• name: file name of the asset,

• download_url: download URL,

• size: size in bytes,

• created_at: POSIXct vector,

• updated_at: POSXct vector,

• content_type: content type of asset.

Add a release asset

Description

ghr$add_asset() adds an asset to a GitHub release.

ghr$async_add_asset() is the async version of ghr$add_asset().

Usage

ghr%add_asset(repo, file, tag, name = basename(file))

Arguments

• repo: repository slug, e.g. cran/cli.

• file: path to file to upload as an asset.

• tag: tag name to add the asset to. It must exist on GitHub.

• name: file name of the asset in the release.

Details

If an asset with the same name already exists, then that will be deleted first.

Value

Response from GitHub as a named list. See https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/assets#upload-a-release-asset for the structure.

Delete a release asset

Description

ghr$delete_asset() deleted a release asset.

ghr$async_delete_asset() is an async version of ghr$delete_asset().

Usage

ghr$delete_asset(repo, tag, name)
ghr$async_delete_asset(repo, tag, name)

Arguments

• repo: repository slug, e.g. cran/cli.

• tag: tag name to create a release for. It must exist on GitHub.

• name: name of the asset.

Value

A list with entries:

• release: a list with the data about the release, before the deletion. It has the same format as the return value of ghr$get().

• deleted: TRUE if the asset was deleted. FALSE if the asset did not exist.

Create a GitHub release

Description

ghr$create() creates a GitHub release from a tag.

ghr$async_create() is an async version of ghr$create().

Usage

ghr$create(
  repo,
  tag,
  description = "",
  draft = FALSE,
  prerelease = FALSE,
  generage_release_notes = FALSE
)

Arguments

• repo: repository slug, e.g. cran/cli.

• tag: tag name to create a release for. It must exist on GitHub.

• description: release description.

• draft: whether to create a draft release.

• prerelease: whether to create a prerelease.

• generate_release_notes: whether to auto-generate release notes.

Value

Response from GitHub as a named list. See https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/releases#create-a-release for the structure.

pkgdepends documentation built on Sept. 13, 2024, 1:11 a.m.