From 9843772fee3ed42eb455168cfcfea9dfc4fafe64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nguyen Huy Hoang <24520554@gm.uit.edu.vn>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:12:03 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add porcelain-style convenience apis on `repo`
 (`create_branch` and `merge`)

Signed-off-by: Nguyen Huy Hoang <181364121+huyhoang171106@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 git/repo/base.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/git/repo/base.py b/git/repo/base.py
index 16807b9fa..b572df160 100644
--- a/git/repo/base.py
+++ b/git/repo/base.py
@@ -170,6 +170,12 @@ class Repo:
     """Subclasses may easily bring in their own custom types by placing a constructor or
     type here."""
 
+    def create_branch(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> Head:
+        return self.create_head(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    def merge(self, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> str:
+        return self.git.merge(*args, **kwargs)
+
     def __init__(
         self,
         path: Optional[PathLike] = None,