How can I get number of commits from Github API until certain branch

Question

I want to get how many commits has done until a certain branch created from the Github API.

For example in git cli I'm doing: git log --no-merges --oneline ${branchHash} | wc -l and I can see the number.

From the Github API there's a limit of 100 so if I have more than 100 commits I can't get them all.

Is there any solution for that case?

Answer 1

I wrote a little thing to solve this:

Gist "Easy way to calculate commits count from the GitHub API".

It is based on using the compare URL of the GitHub Commit API, and using the total_commits field:

compare_url = '{}/repos/{}/{}/compare/{}...{}'.format(base_url, owner, repo, first_commit, sha)

commit_count = commit_req.json()['total_commits'] + 1