GitHub Rest API similar git rev-list command

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i get all commits of a repo with:

curl  -I -k -u ${api_user}:${api_token} "${api_url}/commits?sha=${api_branch}&per_page=1" | sed -n '/^[Ll]ink:/ s/.*"next".*page=\([0-9]*\).*"last".*/\1/p'

Is there a similar way for git rev-list with the GitHub Rest API and curl?

Thanks in advance!

I'm a bit confused: are you looking for a git rev-list command that does what your curl does, or are you looking for a curl operation that does what git rev-list does? — torek
– torek, Commented Aug 24, 2021 at 7:43

VonC · Accepted Answer · 2021-08-24 06:04:50Z

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The GitHub API v3 Commits API is the closest:

GET /repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits

It could be the very same you are using, depending on what ${api_url}.
Like git rev-list, it includes a commit reference from which the list starts.
And a path, to only list commits modifying the given <paths>.

It would not, howver, allow more complex commit specification, like git rev-list foo bar ^baz, which lists all the commits which are reachable from foo or bar, but not from baz.

For that, you would need a GraphQL query, using Commit object, like in [those] examples.6

answered Aug 24, 2021 at 6:04

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Emil Over a year ago

okay, maybe i can get all commits with curl and extracting the commits who have 2+ parents?

VonC Over a year ago

@RomanBürkle Yes: any commit reachable from the starting point will be listed, including commits with two+ parents.

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