I need to retrieve all of the commits on a specific branch on a periodic basis from the api. I'd like to do it from the most recent commit that is recorded but since a certain date would work as well.

What I have is

curl https://github.mycompany.com/api/v3/repos/&owner/&repo/commits?sha=branchname

Which seems to get me the correct commits but I'm curious why I can't append &since=datetime for example

curl https://github.mycompany.com/api/v3/repos/&owner/&repo/commits?sha=branchname&since=2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I have a feeling I'm missing some simple syntax but any help would be appreciated.

CodePudding user response：

You need to put quotes around the URL when you invoke curl from the shell. That's because the shell considers & to be special (it causes the process to be run in the background), so quoting is required in order for the ampersand to be treated as part of the URL.

For example:

$ curl 'https://github.mycompany.com/api/v3/repos/git/git/commits?sha=branchname&since=2021-10-19T00:00:00Z'