gh_dir_ls: List files and directories in GitHub repository

In salim-b/yay: Delightful Convenience Functions

List files and directories in GitHub repository

Description

Lists file and directory names found under rev:path in a GitHub repository via GitHub's GraphQL API.

Usage

gh_dir_ls(
  owner,
  name,
  path = ".",
  rev = "HEAD",
  recurse = TRUE,
  incl_dirs = TRUE,
  incl_files = TRUE
)

Arguments

owner	Repository owner's GitHub user or organization name. A character scalar.
name	Repository name. A character scalar.
path	Path to a directory, relative to the repository root. A character scalar.
rev	Git revision expression matching the desired Git tree object, e.g. a branch or tag name or another symbolic reference like "HEAD@{yesterday}" or "HEAD~10". A character scalar.
recurse	Whether or not to recurse into subdirectories of path.
incl_dirs	Whether or not to list directories (and subdirectories if recurse = TRUE).
incl_files	Whether or not to list files (also inside subdirectories if recurse = TRUE).

Details

Works for both public and private repositories, for the latter you just need to set up a sufficiently authorized GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT).

Note that an empty character vector is returned in case path is invalid or no file/directory exists underneath path.

Value

A character vector of paths to the files and subdirectories found under rev:path, relative to the repository root.

See Also

Other GitHub functions: gh_release_latest(), gh_releases(), gh_text_file(), gh_text_files()

Examples

# you can opt-out from directory recursion
yay::gh_dir_ls(owner = "rpkg-dev",
               name = "pal",
               recurse = FALSE) |>
  pal::cat_lines()

# you can list only files in a directory
yay::gh_dir_ls(owner = "rpkg-dev",
               name = "pal",
               path = "tests",
               incl_dirs = FALSE) |>
  pal::cat_lines()

# or you can list only directories in a directory
yay::gh_dir_ls(owner = "rpkg-dev",
               name = "pal",
               path = "tests",
               incl_files = FALSE) |>
  pal::cat_lines()

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