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Introduction To TinaCMS

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Overview

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Overview

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Overview

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Going To Production

Overview

Tina Cloud

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Overview

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Querying Tina Content at Runtime

Internationalization

Migrating From Forestry

Further Reference

Overview

Config

Schema

The "tina" folder

The TinaCMS CLI

Media

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Tina's edit state

The "tinaField" helper

Self-Hosted Components

Overview

Backend Host

Git Provider

Overview

GitHub

Bring Your Own Git Provider

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Further Reference
Self-Hosted Components
Git Provider
GitHub

GitHub Git Provider

Table of Contents

Adding the GitHub Git Provider
GitHub Git Provider Options
- Required Parameters
- Optional Parameters

The GitHub Git Provider handles saving and deleting content to a GitHub hosted Git repository. It is configured as a parameter to the createDatabase function.

Looking for the code? Check out the GitHub repository.

Adding the GitHub Git Provider

import { GitHubProvider } from 'tinacms-gitprovider-github'
// database.{ts,js}
//...

export default isLocal ? createLocalDatabase() ? createDatabase({
    gitProvider: new GitHubProvider({
        branch: process.env.GITHUB_BRANCH,
        owner: process.env.GITHUB_OWNER,
        repo: process.env.GITHUB_REPO,
        token: process.env.GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN,
      }),
    // ...
})