repo.get_contents( ) with tag/release parameter
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Description
I'm not sure if there is an existing solution and I can't find it, but I would like to load files from an old version of a particular repo. Currently I can only load the latest version of the file from master. So another parameter in repo.get_contents( ) for a version tag would be great.
For example, I would like to load the license file of version v1.53 (https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub/blob/v1.53/COPYING) instead of the one from the master (https://github.com/PyGithub/PyGithub/blob/master/COPYING).
repo.get_contents(path="COPYING", tag="v1.53")
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Research direction
Start at the repo.get_contents implementation and inspect how it builds the GitHub contents request. Verify the version selector against the provided v1.53 COPYING example; done means an old tagged file can be loaded without changing latest-file behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- github, python
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100