github-flow-and-tech.md

GitHub - Flow and Tech

Flow

1. Fetch one/some/all the orgs that the credentials have access to from SCM and create an orgs list.
2. Fetch one/all repos under the fetched/provided orgs.
3. Fetch the commits for the fetched/provided repo/s and create a Contributors list.
4. Count the commits for the repo/s by the contributors.
5. Remove the contributors that were specified in the exclusion file (if the exclusionFilePath flag was set and a valid path to a text file was provided).
6. Print the results.

GitHub API endpoints used

• To get the orgs from GitHub: /user/orgs
• To get the list of the repo/s that correlate with the fetched/provided orgs list: /orgs/{Org}/repos
• To get the commits for the fetched/provided repo/s list: repos/{Org}/{Repo}/commits?since={threeMonthsDate}