feat: add branch name argument to API, close #3

Author: bahmutov

README.md

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ You can pass repo in different format, it will be parsed using
 Optional arguments:
 
 ```
---branch <master> 
+--branch <master>
 ```
 
 Aliases: `--repo -r`, `--message -m`, `--branch -b`
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ emptyGitHubCommit({
   repo: 'repo name',
   token: process.env.TOKEN,
   message: 'my message',
-  fullyQualifiedRef: 'heads/develop'
+  branch: 'develop' // "master" is default
 }).then(console.log, e => {
   console.error(e)
   process.exit(1)
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ to make API calls.
 
 ### Testing
 
-To test this project I created dummy repo 
+To test this project I created dummy repo
 [test-make-empty-github-commit](https://github.com/bahmutov/test-make-empty-github-commit).
 See its [commit history](https://github.com/bahmutov/test-make-empty-github-commit/commits/master)
 to see empty commit messages created from this repository using

bin/empty.js

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ emptyGitHubCommit({
   repo: repo,
   token: token,
   message: options.message,
-  fullyQualifiedRef: `heads/${options.branch}`
+  branch: options.branch
 }).then(console.log, e => {
   console.error(e)
   process.exit(1)

src/index.js

@@ -103,7 +103,14 @@ function emptyGitHubCommit (opts) {
   }
   data.owner = opts.owner
   data.repo = opts.repo
-  data.fullyQualifiedRef = opts.fullyQualifiedRef || 'heads/master'
+
+  if (opts.branch) {
+    data.fullyQualifiedRef = `heads/${opts.branch}`
+  } else {
+    const defaultRef = 'heads/master'
+    data.fullyQualifiedRef = opts.fullyQualifiedRef || defaultRef
+  }
+
   data.forceUpdate = opts.forceUpdate || false
   data.commitMessage =
     opts.message ||
@@ -131,7 +138,7 @@ if (!module.parent) {
     owner: 'bahmutov',
     repo: 'commit-to-github',
     token: process.env.TOKEN,
-    fullyQualifiedRef: 'heads/master'
+    branch: 'master'
   }).then(console.log, e => {
     console.error(e)
     process.exit(1)