How do you commit changes to a file using the GitHub API ? I've found this post by Levi Botelho which explains the necessary steps but without any code. So I've used it and created a Python example.
I've rearranged the steps so that all write operations follow after a certain section in the code and also added an intermediate section which creates the updated content based on what is available in the repository.
I'm just appending
versions of Markdown to the .travis.yml (I will explain why in my next post)
and this is hard-coded for the sake of example. All content related operations
are also based on the GitHub API because I want to be independent of the source
code being around when I push this script to a hosting provider.
I've tested this script against itself. In the commits log you can find the Automatic update to Markdown-X.Y messages. These are from the script. Also notice the Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' messages, these appeared when I pulled to my local copy. I believe the reason for this is that I have some dangling trees and/or commits from the time I was still experimenting with a broken script. I've tested on another clean repository and there are no such merges.
IMPORTANT
For this to work you need to properly authenticate with GitHub. I've crated a new token at https://github.com/settings/tokens with the public_repo permission and that works for me.
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