get-first-commit

Returns a git repository's first commit as a JavaScript object.

Install

Install with npm

$ npm i get-first-commit --save

Usage

var getFirstCommit = require('get-first-commit');

getFirstCommit(function(err, commit) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);
  console.log(commit);
});

Results in

{ commit: 'b371794fbdbdd68498e8c9f3bf766b095ad2fb30',
  author: 'jonschlinkert <jon.schlinkert@sellside.com>',
  date: 'Sun Nov 22 07:44:07 2015 -0500',
  message: 'first commit' }

API

firstCommit

Asynchronously get the first commit from a git repository.

Params

• cwd {String}: current working directory
• callback {Function}
• returns {Object}

Example

firstCommit('foo/.git', function(err, commit) {
  if (err) return console.log(err);
  // do stuff with commit
});

.sync

Synchronously get the first commit from a git repository.

Params

• cwd {String}: current working directory
• returns {Object}

Example

var commit = firstCommit.sync('foo/.git');

Related projects

• git-repo-name: Get the repository name from the git remote origin URL. | homepage
• git-user-name: Get a user's name from git config at the project or global scope, depending on… more | homepage
• git-username: Get the username from a git remote origin URL. | homepage
• github-base: Base methods for creating node.js apps that work with the GitHub API. | homepage

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm i -d && npm test

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2015 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license.

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