github-tools · aendra-rininsland · Mar 22, 2015 · Mar 22, 2015
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@ repo.remove('master', 'path/to/file', function(err) {});
 
 Exploring files of a repository is easy too by accessing the top level tree object.
 
+```js
+repo.getCommit('master', sha, function(err, commit) {});
+```
+
+Get information about a particular commit.
+
 ```js
 repo.getTree('master', function(err, tree) {});
 ```
@@ -304,6 +310,7 @@ Include these before github.js :
 ### 0.10.X
 
 Create and delete repositories
+Repos - getCommit
 
 ### 0.9.X
 

diff --git a/bower.json b/bower.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "github-api",
   "main": "github.js",
-  "version": "0.10.3",
+  "version": "0.10.5",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/michael/github",
   "authors": [
     "Sergey Klimov <sergey.v.klimov@gmail.com> (http://darvin.github.com/)"

diff --git a/github.js b/github.js
@@ -352,6 +352,16 @@
       // For a given file path, get the corresponding sha (blob for files, tree for dirs)
       // -------
 
+      this.getCommit = function(branch, sha, cb) {
+        _request("GET", repoPath + "/git/commits/"+sha, null, function(err, commit) {
+          if (err) return cb(err);
+          cb(null, commit);
+        });
+      };
+
+      // For a given file path, get the corresponding sha (blob for files, tree for dirs)
+      // -------
+
       this.getSha = function(branch, path, cb) {
         if (!path || path === "") return that.getRef("heads/"+branch, cb);
         _request("GET", repoPath + "/contents/"+path, {ref: branch}, function(err, pathContent) {

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "github-api",
-  "version": "0.10.4",
+  "version": "0.10.5",
   "description": "A higher-level wrapper around the Github API.",
   "main": "github.js",
   "dependencies": {

diff --git a/test/test.repo.js b/test/test.repo.js
@@ -49,6 +49,15 @@ test("Repo API", function(t) {
         });
     });
 
+    t.test('repo.getCommit', function(q) {
+        repo.getCommit('master', '20fcff9129005d14cc97b9d59b8a3d37f4fb633b', function(err, commit) {
+            q.error(err, 'get commit' + err);
+            q.ok(commit.message, 'v0.10.4', 'Returned commit message.');
+            q.ok(commit.author.date, '2015-03-20T17:01:42Z', 'Got correct date.');
+            q.end();
+        });
+    });
+
     clearTimeout(timeout);
     t.end();