{"id": 1177059481, "node_id": "I_kwDODFdgUs5GKICZ", "number": 71, "title": "Store commit parents", "user": {"value": 64686, "label": "carltongibson"}, "state": "closed", "locked": 0, "assignee": null, "milestone": null, "comments": 0, "created_at": "2022-03-22T17:06:48Z", "updated_at": "2022-04-22T12:44:04Z", "closed_at": "2022-04-22T12:44:04Z", "author_association": "NONE", "pull_request": null, "body": "Hi @simonw \ud83d\udc4b \r\n\r\nCurrently, stored commit data doesn't quite give me the information I'm needing... \r\n\r\nCommitter date and author date are not 100% reliable for dividing a commit history up by release or branch. \r\nA PR created before a release but merged after can have earlier dates\u2026 \u2014 this can be quite frustrating if you're trying to pin down commits for a release: _It should be there!_, but then isn't. (This gets worse using release branches.) \r\n\r\nWould you be open to adding the `sha` of a `parent` of a commit to the commit table? (As an FK? \ud83e\udd14 \u2014\u00a0likely not feasible.)\r\n\r\nIt's part of the [response body](https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/commits#get-a-commit): \r\n\r\n```\r\n  \"parents\": [\r\n    {\r\n      \"url\": \"https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e\",\r\n      \"sha\": \"6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e\"\r\n    }\r\n  ],\r\n```\r\n\r\nI think this list should only have a single entry. (\ud83e\udd14 \u2014\u00a0not sure why it's a list then...)\r\n\r\nWith this it would be possible to build/reconstruct a chain of commits from the history, that I don't **think** is available as yet (unless you know a better way). \r\n\r\nIt is certainly possible to get sequential lists of commits out of git directly, so the same would be possible combining tools, but wondering if a single tool could do it. \r\n\r\nWhat do you think? \r\nThanks! \ud83c\udfc5 \r\n\r\n", "repo": {"value": 207052882, "label": "github-to-sqlite"}, "type": "issue", "active_lock_reason": null, "performed_via_github_app": null, "reactions": "{\"url\": \"https://api.github.com/repos/dogsheep/github-to-sqlite/issues/71/reactions\", \"total_count\": 0, \"+1\": 0, \"-1\": 0, \"laugh\": 0, \"hooray\": 0, \"confused\": 0, \"heart\": 0, \"rocket\": 0, \"eyes\": 0}", "draft": null, "state_reason": "completed"}