Dataset: Commits from pull requests
Entity: Commit
Field ID: deletions
Type: Integer
Description: The number of lines of code deleted in the commit.
Source: App
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Github (PRs) |
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Gitlab (PRs) |
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Bitbucket (PRs) | N/A |
Why are lines of code not fetched for Bitbucket?
Unlike GitHub and GitLab, Bitbucket does not expose the number of lines of code changed on the commit API. To fetch the lines of code per commit, one must make an additional API call per commit (fetch the diff stats). The same applies to pull requests.
We do it for pull requests because the number of additional API calls remains reasonable (several thousand). However, commits could generate many additional API calls (several tens or hundreds of thousands), which would, in turn, contribute to reaching the Bitbucket throttling quota more quickly, potentially hindering data hydration (because the quota gets reached regularly).
So for now, the lines of code per commit are not retrieved for Bitbucket. This decision might be revisited later on.