Commiting and pushing files from MATLAB to Github using MATLAB script

Hello All,

I'd like to push a excel file to my github repository(external) that's generated after running a MATLAB script.

I was able to run these below MATLAB commands but not sure how to connect and push to an external github repository

[~, userNameOutput] = system('git config --global user.name');
[~, branchNameOutput] = system('git name-rev --name-only HEAD');
[~, gitCommitSHA] = system('git rev-parse HEAD');

I'm looking something like this Ocktokit library where I can provide auth and commit and push the files using git commands

Answer 1

[Luca Ferro]

assuming you already cloned your repository in a local directory and already made the checkout of the branches, just move to that directory, add the file, commit your changes and push:

(1)

system('git add <fileName.extension>');

system('git commit -m "<message-to-Commit>"');

system('git push');

if the assumption is not correct, i guess that you have a local branch with no upstream. In this case you can either:

system('git branch --set-upstream-to <remote-branch>') %then add,commit,push

or change the push command in (1) with:

system('git push -u origin local-branch') %git remote -v to find your remotes, the default one is origin usually

Note:

if in (1) you want to programmatically set the name of the excel file refer to this question to get the name of the latest generated file. Then strcat the add command with the name.

Same goes for the commit, just strcat the command and the message together.

[Manoj]

@Luca Ferro The file name that I'm setting is a dynamic one and change like below.

How should I pass this inside the system command ?

Below implementation is not working

filePath = 'C:\Users\Projects\data\testFile.xls'

system('git add filePath');

[Luca Ferro]

f2a=strcat('git add ',{' '} ,filePath); %or if you prefer f2a=['git add' ' ' filePath];

system(f2a)

[Manoj]

Thanks @Luca Ferro for the quick ans!

[Luca Ferro]

if you need anything else feel free to ask :)

[Manoj]

@Luca Ferro getting this error

[Luca Ferro]

what you have put in system() is not a string, you need square brackets [ ]:

[~, gitAdd]= system(['git add' ' ' varargin{1}.filename_PD]);

[Manoj]

Thanks @Luca Ferro

Also please let me know if you can help on this qstn

https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/1893275-setting-up-of-port-forwarding-to-postgresql-from-matlab?s_tid=srchtitle