- The GitHub list commits API now supports this filtering
(https://docs.github.com/en/rest/commits/commits?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-commits--parameters),
because I wrote it. :-)
- Authoring a commit and committing a commit are two separate concepts: author
is the person who wrote the code and, in old parlance, the committer is the
person who applied the patch (remember when we sent patches to mailing lists?).
- In practice for us in Homebrew, this occurs when we make a change in GitHub's
web editor, or, more obviously, when BrewTestBot pushes `homebrew-core`
commits from users (then, `BrewTestBot` is the `committer`).
I know that we're outside our normal deprecation cycle but: these are
totally broken with the API and it doesn't make sense to support them
only for non-core formulae.
- Now `brew contributions --from=2023-02-23 --to=2023-02-26` works to limit the
results for reviews. I forgot this in the original implementation, again,
ugh.
- The search APIs don't have that high a rate limit but we shouldn't need to
worry about that too much because, to get counts, the JSON response comes
with a `total_count` number.
- The `API_MAX_PAGES` value is 50, so for pages 1 to 50, the
`paginate_rest` method was making an API call even if there was no
data past, for example, page 8.
- This made `brew contributions --user=issyl0` take 11 minutes, since we
made 50 API calls _per repo_ even if it was unnecessary, burning down
our API allowance.
- Instead, stop looping if we detect that there's no data in `result`.
- This probably needs more testing for other parts of Homebrew that rely
on `paginate_rest` and the different shapes of data it outputs.
- Functionally it doesn't matter that the URL will have an `&` at the
end if `additional_query_params` is `nil`, because it doesn't affect
the URL at all.
- These are arbitrary length limits that had a load of disables in code.
- The limits were only increasing over time rather than decreasing.
- Fixing the problematic code to be shorter would take a long time for
questionable gain since the problem has been around so long.
- Using `git log` was brittle with name changes and email address changes for
contributors over the years unless we made a Git `mailmap` file which brings
with it its own updatedness overhead.
- Let's use the GitHub commits API (importantly _not_ the search API) so that
we can give it a username and it will return contributions associated with
every email address on that user's account:
https://docs.github.com/en/rest/commits/commits?apiVersion=2022-11-28#list-commits--parameters.
- This is quite significantly slower, but it's worth it for correctness
especially when we get to all maintainers' contributions (in a separate PR).
- The commits API does not (yet?) support trailers or commit "committer"s, just
authors.
- We're not going to make the really long things be any shorter any time soon.
- The instructions in issue 14685 say, pragmatically, "disable all the rubocop
rules we're never going to realistically fix e.g. Metrics/ClassLength". But
that felt like a slippery slope to more _really_ long modules/classes/blocks,
and the limits are here for a reason.
