Nodegit create remote repository and make first push

Question

Many people claim to have solved this problem in the following examples

• https://github.com/nodegit/nodegit/issues/463
• Nodegit: How to modify a file and push the changes?

However after testing these solutions out I'm given an error that claims the remote.setCallbacks(...) function is undefined. A quick check at the Nodegit API documentation

• http://www.nodegit.org/api/remote/#push

confirms that the remote.setCallbacks(...) function is indeed undefined. I tried this example code found on the Nodegit page

• https://github.com/nodegit/nodegit/blob/master/examples/push.js

But this code freezes at the remote.push(...) command. How have people managed to actually push code to a remote repository using Nodegit? Any help on the issue I've found thus far has been a disappointment!

Answer 1

Unfortunately I was shooting myself in the foot all day. The reason the example code found at

• https://github.com/nodegit/nodegit/blob/master/examples/push.js

wasn't working was because the remote github repository wasn't created before running the code. I'm guessing execution froze at the remote.push(...) command because the push prompt would make a request for the repository and not get a valid response, at which point it would make another request but still not get a valid response. Over and over again this would continue. The nodegit promise chain needs to establish a connection with the remote repository before it can finish. Unfortunately the Nodegit API documentation lacks explanation for many offered functions. Oh well, the important thing is a solution was reached!