GrapQL orderBy TAG_COMMIT_DATE stopped working for refs?

[Elvets]

Hello,

Up until yesterday (it's when we first noticed this issue), the following query worked fine:

{
  repository(owner: "company", name: "terraform-modules") {
    refs(
      refPrefix: "refs/tags/rel/waf-rules/"
      first: 12
      orderBy: {field: TAG_COMMIT_DATE, direction: DESC}
    ) {
      edges {
        node {
          name
        }}}}}

And we would get output like:

{
  "data": {
    "repository": {
      "refs": {
        "edges": [
          {
            "node": {
              "name": "1.0.0"
            }
          },
          {
            "node": {
              "name": "1.1.0"
            }
          },
          {
            "node": {
              "name": "1.2.0"
            }
          },
          {
            "node": {
              "name": "2.0.0"
            }
          },
...

Since yesterday however, the output shows:

{
  "data": {
    "repository": {
      "refs": {
        "edges": []
      }}}}

If we remove the orderBy completely or change TAG_COMMIT_DATE to ALPHABETICAL. We get output again, just not the expected one as we want to sort on TAG_COMMIT_DATE.

Basically, what I want is the following output from graphql:

❯ git for-each-ref --sort=-creatordate --format '%(refname)' refs/tags/rel/waf-rules
refs/tags/rel/waf-rules/4.0.0
refs/tags/rel/waf-rules/3.0.0
refs/tags/rel/waf-rules/2.0.0
refs/tags/rel/waf-rules/1.2.0
refs/tags/rel/waf-rules/1.1.0
refs/tags/rel/waf-rules/1.0.0

❯

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[falbocodes]

Hi @Elvets,
I noticed the same issue as yours. With GIT_COMMITTER_DATE we have an empty array, switching to ALPHABETICAL the output array has values. I'm pretty sure that was working well 12 days ago.

For now, I switched to ALPHABETICAL, but I do prefer GIT_COMMITTER_DATE and would be cool to understand what happened.

[PSchnurbus24]

Hi,

we've the same problem and this blocks our release workflows.

[Elvets]

Small update. After further testing, it seems that in our specific case, if we change our query to the below, we get our initial output again:

{
  repository(owner: "wealthsimple", name: "terraform-modules") {
    refs(
      refPrefix: "refs/tags/"
      first: 12
      query: "rel/waf-rules/",
      orderBy: {field: TAG_COMMIT_DATE, direction: DESC}
    ) {
      edges {
        node {
          name
        }}}}}

Note the query: "rel/waf-rules/", part, if we use just query: "waf-rules/", or query: "waf-rules",, the query still fails.

So, it does seem like something changed in the API...

[PSchnurbus24]

Problem seems to be fixed.

[falbocodes]

Hi @PSchnurbus24,
I just have given it a try, with my original query and its seems fixed.

[Elvets]

Yes, seems to be fixed indeed. Original query works again.

No changes in the GitHub GraphQL API Changelog (https://docs.github.com/en/graphql/overview/changelog) 😦

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