pull-request

All the tools you need to commit to GitHub repos via the API and create pull requests

Supports:

• exists: check if a repository already exists so you don't try and fork again
• fork: fork a repository so you get a copy to edit
• branch: create a new branch in a repository to edit
• commit: commit changes to files within a branch
• pull: create a pull request to have a human merge those changes

Installation

npm install pull-request

API

pr.exists(user, repo, options, callback)

Returns true if github.com/:user/:repo exists, and false if requesting that url returns an error.

pr.fork(user, repo, options, callback)

Forks the repo github.com/:user/:repo to the authenticated user and waits until the fork operation completes. To fork to an organization, just add an organization string to the options object.

N.B. forking will currently appear successful even if the target repo already exists. This functionality should not be relied upon and is subject to change without necessarily updating the MAJOR version.

options:

See github-basic and note that auth is required

pr.branch(user, repo, from, to, options, callback)

Creates a new branch in github.com/:user/:repo using from as the source branch and to as the new branch name.

pr.commit(user, repo, commit, options, callback)

Commits a set of changes to github.com/:user/:repo. It only supports updating text files.

commit:

An object with:

property	type	default	description
branch	String	'master'	The branch to commit to
message	String	required	The commit message
updates	Array<FileUpdate>	required	The actual changes to make

FileUpdate:

An object with:

property	type	default	description
path	String	required	The file path within the repo (e.g. test/index.js)
content	String	required	The new content of the file
mode	String	'100644'	The mode to commit the file with (you probably don't want to change this)
type	String	'blob'	The type of entry to create (you probably don't want to change this)

options:

See github-basic and note that auth is required

Additionally the force object defaults to false and will force push the change if set to true. You almost certainly don't want to do this.

pr.pull(from, to, message, options, callback)

Creates a pull request from from to to.

from:

An object with:

property	type	default	description
user	String	required	The source user
repo	String	required	The source repository
branch	String	'master'	The source branch

to:

An object with:

property	type	default	description
user	String	required	The destination user
repo	String	required	The destination repository
branch	String	'master'	The destination branch

message:

Either:

property	type	default	description
title	String	required	The title of the pull request
body	String	''	The body of the pull request

or:

property	type	default	description
issue	Number	required	An issue number to convert into a pull request

options:

See github-basic and note that auth is required

Promises

All APIs return promises if callback is ommitted.

License

MIT