- 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.
The main class you should look at is the {Formula} class (and classes linked from there). That's the class that's used to create Homebrew formulae (i.e. package descriptions). Assume anything else you stumble upon is private.
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