create-tag: switch GitHub API from REST to GraphQL#43
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Replace per-commit REST API calls (ghapi) with batched GitHub GraphQL
queries, reducing ~100+ HTTP requests and 60+ seconds of mandatory
sleep to 1-3 requests with no sleeps.
Benchmarked against osbuild/osbuild-composer:
23 commits (v170..v171): 111 API calls / 100.3s → 1 call / 1.2s (81.6x)
7 commits (v171..v172): 34 API calls / 27.3s → 1 call / 0.9s (31.6x)
3 image tags: 6 API calls / 5.2s → 1 call / 0.4s (11.7x)
Images changelog output is byte-identical. PR coverage is a strict
superset (GraphQL associatedPullRequests finds PRs that the REST search
index occasionally misses). Author name resolution for bot accounts is
also fixed (REST/ghapi returned '{}' instead of falling back to login).
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Amazing. Tested locally, it seems to work and it is fast as hell... 👍
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Note that in case of an error (could be a transient network issue), the continue will drop a whole batch of commits and the final pushed tag will be incomplete. It may make more sense to hard fail in such a case or catch a more specific exception.
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Darn, didn't see that comment in time for the merge, but will create a follow-up.
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Replace per-commit REST API calls (ghapi) with batched GitHub GraphQL queries, reducing ~100+ HTTP requests and 60+ seconds of mandatory sleep to 1-3 requests with no sleeps.
Benchmarked against osbuild/osbuild-composer:
23 commits (v170..v171): 111 API calls / 100.3s → 1 call / 1.2s (81.6x)
7 commits (v171..v172): 34 API calls / 27.3s → 1 call / 0.9s (31.6x)
3 image tags: 6 API calls / 5.2s → 1 call / 0.4s (11.7x)
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