gitlab api equivalent to git log (compare branch with tag) and list commit message json-CodePudding

i need some equivalent command to the following command:

git log --pretty="* %s%n%b" BRANCH2...TAGNAME1

i tried already the compare feature of the api but sadly without the result i expected:

curl -s --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: XXXXXXX" "https://gitlab.localhost/api/v4/projects/3/repository/compare?from=BRANCH2&to=TAGNAME1&straight=true" | jq .

what i get is:

  "commit": null,
  "commits": [],

but git log gives me the following:

 * commit 1 description
 * commit 2 description

so what i search and need is to compare BRANCH2 with TAGNAME1 and list the different commits. this is later on needed in order to generate a changelog file which is pushed to a new tag.

CodePudding user response：

This would be the compare API

Using the gitlab-org/gitlab repo as an example, to compare the tags/branches v14.8.0-ee to v14.9.0-ee:

curl https://gitlab.com/api/v4/projects/278964/repository/compare?from=v14.8.0-ee&to=v14.9.0-ee

If you're not getting the response you're expecting, try swapping the from and to arguments and/or omitting the straight argument.

CodePudding user response：

thank you! the solution in the end was change the from and to so in the end it works like that:

curl -s --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: XXXXXXX" "https://gitlab.localhost/api/v4/projects/3/repository/compare?from=TAGNAME1&to=BRANCH2&straight=true" | jq .