A signature contains the author and timestamp of a commit. This is needed by the git_commit function.

git_signature_default(repo = ".")

git_signature(name, email, time = NULL)

Arguments

repo

a path to an existing repository, or a git_repository object as returned by git_open, git_init or git_clone.

name

Real name of the committer

email

Email address of the commmitter

time

timestamp of class POSIXt or NULL

See also