How to get the last commit push time of a PR

[taoxinyi]

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Trying to understand how to get the push time of the last commit in a given PR.
It seems both APIs mentioned here have limitation of how much data can be retrieved (e.g. within 90days or 300 events)
From this https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/24730 the pushedDate is deprecated and will not work if a branch is deleted after merge.

[milindaShehan]

If you're trying to get the push time of the last commit in a given pull request (PR) and you're concerned about limitations due to API constraints and the potential issue with the pushedDate being deprecated, you can use the following approach:

Clone the Repository
Clone the repository locally using Git. This will give you access to all the commit history.

Check the Last Commit
Use the command git log -n 1 to view the details of the last commit in the PR.

For example:

git log -n 1

This will display information about the last commit, including the commit hash and the commit date.
By directly interacting with the Git repository, you bypass any API limitations and ensure you have access to the complete commit history, regardless of any changes or deletions that may occur after the merge.
Keep in mind that this approach assumes you have local access to the repository. If you need to automate this process or perform it on a remote server, you might need to consider other strategies.

[taoxinyi]

Hi @milindaShehan I might be wrong but I think the commit date is the time when developer runs git commit in their local instead of the time of pushing to github. For example. I can have a commit with committed date 10/1 and only run git push at 10/15.

[mkArtakMSFT]

Leaving this here in case someone is still wondering about this.
I've hit the issue described by @taoxinyi above, where accessing the commit date programmatically through the Commit.Author.Date field produced a date, that was older than the PR creation date.
The find the date when the commit was actually pushed to GitHub I found the Commit.Committer.Date field instead.

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