Repository methods

Creating a Repository object is possible, providing a path argument to the constructor:

$repository = new Repository('/path/to/repo');

Repository options

The constructor of Repository takes an additional parameter: $options. This parameter can be used used to tune behavior of library.

Available options are:

• debug (default: true): Enables exception when edge cases are met
• environment_variables: (default: none) An array of environment variables to be set in sub-process
• logger: (default: none) Logger to use for reporting of execution (a Psr\Log\LoggerInterface)
• command: (default: git) Specify command to execute to run git
• working_dir: If you are using multiple working directories, this option is for you

An example:

$repository = new Repository('/path/to/repo', [
    'debug'  => true,
    'logger' => new Monolog\Logger(),
]);

Test if a repository is bare

On a Repository object, you can call method isBare to test if your repository is bare or not:

$repository->isBare();

Compute size of a repository

To know how much size a repository is using on your drive, you can use getSize method on a Repository object.

warning

This command was only tested with linux.

The returned size is in kilobytes:

$size = $repository->getSize();

echo 'Your repository size is '.$size.'KB';

Access HEAD

HEAD represents in git the version you are working on (in working tree). Your HEAD can be attached (using a reference) or detached (using a commit).

$head = $repository->getHead(); // Commit or Reference
$head = $repository->getHeadCommit(); // Commit

if ($repository->isHeadDetached()) {
    echo 'Sorry man'.PHP_EOL;
}

Options for repository

Logger

If you are developing, you may appreciate to have a logger inside repository, telling you every executed command.

You call method setLogger as an option on repository creation:

$repository->setLogger(new Monolog\Logger('repository'));

$repository->run('fetch', ['--all']);

You can also specify as an option on repository creation:

$logger = new MonologLogger('repository');
$repository = new Repository('/path/foo', ['logger' => $logger]);
$repository->run('fetch', ['--all']);

This will output:

info run command: fetch "--all"
debug last command (fetch) duration: 23.24ms
debug last command (fetch) return code: 0
debug last command (fetch) output: Fetching origin

Disable debug-mode

Gitlib throws an exception when something seems wrong. If a git command exits with a non-zero code, then execution will be stopped, and a RuntimeException will be thrown. If you want to prevent this, set the debug option to false. This will make Repository log errors and return empty data instead of throwing exceptions.

$repository = new Repository('/tmp/foo', ['debug' => false, 'logger' => $logger]);

note

If you plan to disable debug, you should rely on the logger to keep a trace of the failing cases.

Specify git command to use

You can pass the option command to specify which command to use to run git calls. If you have a git binary located somewhere else, use this option to specify to gitlib path to your git binary:

$repository = new Gitonomy\Git\Repository('/tmp/foo', ['command' => '/home/alice/bin/git']); 

Environment variables

It is possible to send environment variables to the git commands.

$repository = new Gitonomy\Git\Repository('/tmp/foo', ['environment_variables' => ['GIT_']])