Github Node - I am not sure how set the branch when running a Get Files/Folders

jdkdev · February 11, 2022, 7:52pm

Hi,

I tried adding ?ref=dev in the file path (it seems to work when getting a file). I also thought it might an additional option based on this code here:

github.com

n8n-io/n8n/blob/master/packages/nodes-base/nodes/Github/Github.node.ts#L585

      
        
            							{
            								displayName: 'Email',
            								name: 'email',
            								type: 'string',
            								default: '',
            								description: 'The email of the author of the commit.',
            							},
            						],
            					},
            					{
            						name: 'branch',
            						displayName: 'Branch',
            						values: [
            							{
            								displayName: 'Branch',
            								name: 'branch',
            								type: 'string',
            								default: '',
            								description: 'The branch to commit to. If not set the repository’s default branch (usually master) is used.',
            							},
            						],

But don’t see it available. I am running version 0.161.0.

Does anyone know how to do it or how I am doing it wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Jordan

mcnaveen · February 12, 2022, 6:25am

Hi @jdkdev

Welcome to the n8n community

Looks like this option already exists to select the Branch.

You can find it under Additional Parameters

jdkdev · February 12, 2022, 3:29pm

@mcnaveen Thanks for the quick reply! And sorry, I confused myself. I’m seeing it on the edit, but not on the get:file, I guess my question is for “Getting Files or Folders”.

Do I need to include ?ref={branch} at the end or is there a different way to specific branch when getting? It seems to work for files but not when the path is a folder.

Jordan

jdkdev · February 12, 2022, 4:21pm

I think I figured it out.

Thanks @mcnaveen.

jan · February 12, 2022, 5:38pm

To make it easier in the future did we add the “Reference” parameter which will be available with the next version.

mcnaveen · February 12, 2022, 7:46pm

Wow. Thanks @jan

jan · February 13, 2022, 10:53am

Sure, was not very complicated. Got released with [email protected]

jdkdev · February 13, 2022, 10:25pm

Thanks @jan and @mcnaveen!

jdkdev · February 14, 2022, 5:10pm

@jan,

It seems that github needs the sha in the body for updating files. I don’t see a way to add that to the node.

Am I missing something again? Thanks in advance for any help.

Best,
Jordan

jdkdev · February 16, 2022, 4:40pm

I’ll add that this is only an issue when there is more than one branch involved. It doesn’t seem to error out when I only have one branch in my github repo.