extract_commit: Extract a commit from a Git repository

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Extract a commit from a Git repository

Description

extract_commit extracts the 7-digit SHA1 identifier and message for a specified commit.

Usage

extract_commit(path, num)

Arguments

path	character. Specify the path to a directory that is a Git repository (or any subdirectory of the Git repository).
num	numeric. The number of the commit to extract in reverse chronological order. In other words, 1 is the most recent commit, 2 is the second most recent commit, etc.

Value

A list with the named elements sha1 and message (both characters). If a Git repository is not found at path, both are NA.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Most recent commit
extract_commit(".", 1)
# Penultimate commit
extract_commit(".", 2)

## End(Not run)

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