Are we able to use GitHub API to create a commit? especially v4?

Question

Are we able to use GitHub API to create a commit? Can we use API to upload a file/blob, like what we can do using Git command, especially in API v4?

Answer 1

Presumably yes, using the GitHub Commits API (in the context of a GitHub application)

You can see the all sequence in "GitHub API Git Data":

• Get the current commit object
• Retrieve the tree it points to
• Retrieve the content of the blob object that tree has for that particular file path
• Change the content somehow and post a new blob object with that new content, getting a blob SHA back
• Post a new tree object with that file path pointer replaced with your new blob SHA getting a tree SHA back
• Create a new commit object with the current commit SHA as the parent and the new tree SHA, getting a commit SHA back
• Update the reference of your branch to point to the new commit SHA

Each of those steps has its own GitHub API query.