gistfile1.txt

// seeing if github always returns a 409 conflict - seems like it does
// this is also a good way of teasing out github's error responses, which are undocumented (or i haven't browsed the docs carefully enough)

const co = require('co')
const request = require('superagent')
const sleep = require('co-sleep')
const btoa = require('btoa')

const token = process.env.TOKEN
if (!token) throw new Error('need token')

// get
// update 1
// wait
// update 2, using same sha

co(function*(){
  let res = yield request
  .get('https://api.github.com/repos/RisingTideGames/slots-live-data-dev/contents/test.json')
  .set('Authorization', `token ${token}`)
  .then(res => res.body)
  console.log('get succeeded')

  yield sleep(3 * 1000)

  let res2 = yield request
  .put('https://api.github.com/repos/RisingTideGames/slots-live-data-dev/contents/test.json')
  .set('Authorization', `token ${token}`)
  .send({
    message: 'first update',
    content: btoa(JSON.stringify({
      first: 'update'
    }, null, 4) + '\n'),
    sha: res.sha,
  })
  console.log('update 1 succeeded')

  yield sleep(3 * 1000)

  let res3 = yield request
  .put('https://api.github.com/repos/RisingTideGames/slots-live-data-dev/contents/test.json')
  .set('Authorization', `token ${token}`)
  .send({
    message: 'second update',
    content: btoa(JSON.stringify({
      second: 'update'
    }, null, 4) + '\n'),
    sha: res.sha,
  })
  console.log('update 2 succeeded')
}).catch(err => {
  console.log('status:', err.status)
  console.error(err.stack)
})