B.1.1 Github ¶
Forge’s support for Github can be considered the "reference
implementation". Support for other forges can lag behind a bit.
B.1.1.1 Github Caveats ¶
- Forge uses the Github GraphQL API when possible but has to fall
back to use the REST API in many cases because the former is still
rather incomplete.
- The Github GraphQL API has a hard-coded timeout on queries. The only solution
is to reduce the number of entities we query at once, which can be done by
adjusting either the
forge.graphqlItemLimit git variable or the field "GQL
entity limit" in a status buffer.
- Forge depends on the
updated_at field being updated when
appropriate. For Github pull-requests at least, that is not always
done.