CreateBranch - Amazon CodeCommit
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CreateBranch

Creates a branch in a repository and points the branch to a commit.

Note

Calling the create branch operation does not set a repository's default branch. To do this, call the update default branch operation.

Request Syntax

{ "branchName": "string", "commitId": "string", "repositoryName": "string" }

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

branchName

The name of the new branch to create.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 256.

Required: Yes

commitId

The ID of the commit to point the new branch to.

Type: String

Required: Yes

repositoryName

The name of the repository in which you want to create the new branch.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.

Pattern: [\w\.-]+

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

BranchNameExistsException

Cannot create the branch with the specified name because the commit conflicts with an existing branch with the same name. Branch names must be unique.

HTTP Status Code: 400

BranchNameRequiredException

A branch name is required, but was not specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

CommitDoesNotExistException

The specified commit does not exist or no commit was specified, and the specified repository has no default branch.

HTTP Status Code: 400

CommitIdRequiredException

A commit ID was not specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EncryptionIntegrityChecksFailedException

An encryption integrity check failed.

HTTP Status Code: 500

EncryptionKeyAccessDeniedException

An encryption key could not be accessed.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EncryptionKeyDisabledException

The encryption key is disabled.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EncryptionKeyNotFoundException

No encryption key was found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

EncryptionKeyUnavailableException

The encryption key is not available.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidBranchNameException

The specified reference name is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidCommitIdException

The specified commit ID is not valid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRepositoryNameException

A specified repository name is not valid.

Note

This exception occurs only when a specified repository name is not valid. Other exceptions occur when a required repository parameter is missing, or when a specified repository does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

RepositoryDoesNotExistException

The specified repository does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 400

RepositoryNameRequiredException

A repository name is required, but was not specified.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of CreateBranch.

Sample Request

POST / HTTP/1.1 Host: codecommit.us-east-1.amazonaws.com Accept-Encoding: identity Content-Length: 113 X-Amz-Target: CodeCommit_20150413.CreateBranch X-Amz-Date: 20151028T221237Z User-Agent: aws-cli/1.7.38 Python/2.7.9 Windows/7 Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AKIAI44QH8DHBEXAMPLE/20151028/us-east-1/codecommit/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=content-type;host;user-agent;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, Signature=8d9b5998EXAMPLE { "commitId": "317f8570EXAMPLE", "repositoryName": "MyDemoRepo", "branchName": "MyNewBranch" }

Sample Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amzn-RequestId: 0728aaa8-EXAMPLE Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1 Content-Length: 0 Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 22:12:40 GMT

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific Amazon SDKs, see the following: