How to find all the commits of an organization in github?

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Currently now github allows me to find the commits of a repo but in an organization there are many repos using this below

https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/commits

I want to find the total of all the repos without looping through and summing all of them. Is there a faster way to get the total commits of an organization

i tried https://api.github.com/repos/OWNER/REPO/commits this for every repo but the time taken to run is very long so i wanted to find a better alternative.

Have you looked through the Github API docs? If you cannot find a means, then it probably doesn't exist — Phil
– Phil, Commented Jun 25, 2024 at 4:36
Start the process now, it might finish before you get a better solution. — Schwern
– Schwern, Commented Jun 25, 2024 at 5:04
yeah have looked at the docs but doesn't seem to find one.. the process is taking me like 7 hrs for just 10 rows of data(10 organisations total commit) .. — Diong
– Diong, Commented Jun 25, 2024 at 5:17

Schwern · Accepted Answer · 2024-06-25 05:17:07Z

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A faster option might be to use the Github API to list all public repositories of an organization. For each repository only clone the commits using git clone --filter=object:type=commit. Then use git to examine the commits.

Here's some pseudo code to explain how to count every commit in an organization.

num_commits = 0
for repo in org.repos
  git clone --filter=object:type=commit repo.url
  cd into repo
  num_commits += git rev-list --all --count

This has the potential to be very efficient because the commit objects are very small and cloning is very efficient. Much more efficient than paging through every commit with a JSON API.

answered Jun 25, 2024 at 5:17

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