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Commiting multiple files to github over API
'use strict';
var Octokat = require('octokat');
var extend = require('lodash/object/assign');
var defaults = {
branchName: 'master',
token: '',
username: '',
reponame: ''
};
function init(options) {
options = extend({}, defaults, options);
var head;
var octo = new Octokat({
token: options.token
});
var repo = octo.repos(options.username, options.reponame);
function fetchHead() {
return repo.git.refs.heads(options.branchName).fetch();
}
function fetchTree() {
return fetchHead().then(function(commit) {
head = commit;
return repo.git.trees(commit.object.sha).fetch();
});
}
function commit(files, message) {
return Promise.all(files.map(function(file) {
return repo.git.blobs.create({
content: file.content,
encoding: 'utf-8'
});
})).then(function(blobs) {
return fetchTree().then(function(tree) {
return repo.git.trees.create({
tree: files.map(function(file, index) {
return {
path: file.path,
mode: '100644',
type: 'blob',
sha: blobs[index].sha
};
}),
basetree: tree.sha
});
});
}).then(function(tree) {
return repo.git.commits.create({
message: message,
tree: tree.sha,
parents: [
head.object.sha
]
});
}).then(function(commit) {
return repo.git.refs.heads(options.branchName).update({
sha: commit.sha
});
});
}
return {
commit: commit
};
}
module.exports = init;
'use strict';
var github = require('./github');
var api = github({
username: 'YOUR_USERNAME',
token: 'API_TOKEN', // created here https://github.com/settings/applications#personal-access-tokens
reponame: 'BRANCH_NAME'
});
api.commit([{
path: 'test/file1.md',
content: '# File1'
}, {
path: 'test/file2.md',
content: '# File2'
}], 'test commit via api'); // returns a promise
@sudcha2
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sudcha2 commented Nov 30, 2020

Update: Works well as of November 2020.

@StephanHoyer thank you for sharing!

@freegroup
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Update: Works well as of April 2021 :-)

the same is possible to delete multiple files at once

delete: function(files, message) {
    return fetchTree()
      .then(function(tree) {
        return repo.git.trees.create({
          tree: files.map(function(file) {
            return {
              path: file.path,
              mode: '100644',
              type: 'blob',
              sha: null
            };
          }),
          base_tree: tree.sha
        });
      })
      .then((tree) => {
        return repo.git.commits.create({
          message: message,
          tree: tree.sha,
          parents: [ head.object.sha ]
        });
      })
      .then((commit) => {
        return repo.git.refs.heads(GITHUB_BRANCH).update({
          sha: commit.sha
        });
      })
  }

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freegroup commented Apr 2, 2022

just for the sake of completeness...renameDir. It is not an easy task. You must delete all files in the directory which you want to rename and create a new tree with the SHA of the deleted tree

  renameDirectory: async function(fromDir, toDir, message) {
    let parentDir = path.dirname(fromDir)
    let parentSha = null
    let dirSha = null
    return fetchTree().then( (tree) => {
      parentSha = tree.sha
      return repo.contents(parentDir).fetch()
    }).then(function(infos) {
      let item = infos.items.find( item => item.path===fromDir )
      dirSha = item.sha
      return repo.git.trees(dirSha).fetch({recursive:true});
    }).then(function({tree}) {
      // create the "tree" with "sha:null" to delete all files below the old directory
      //
      const newTree = tree.filter(({ type }) => type === TYPE.BLOB)
                              .map(({ path, mode, type }) => ( { path: `${fromDir}/${path}`, sha: null, mode, type }));
      // create a tree with the sha of the delete directory....inherits the content.
      //
      newTree.push( {
        path: toDir,
        mode: '040000',
        type: 'tree',
        sha: dirSha
      })
      // create the new folder and delte the files in the old folder.
      //
      return repo.git.trees.create({
        tree: newTree,
        base_tree: parentSha
      });
    }).then(function(tree) {
      return repo.git.commits.create({
        message: message,
        tree: tree.sha,
        parents: [ head.object.sha ]
      });
    }).then(function(commit) {
      return repo.git.refs.heads(GITHUB_BRANCH).update({
        sha: commit.sha
      });
    });
  }

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