Develop "search by interval" option

[rodrigoalvesvieira]

Groundhog should feature the capability of searching projects in a given interval. That could be defined by the following parameters:

• Initial date informed - if only an initial date was informed, Groundhog would download the project from this date to the last activity
• Final date informed - Groundhog would download from the beginning to the final date
• Complete interval informed - Groundhog would download from the informed initial to the informed final date.

[gustavopinto]

what do you mean with interval? is the project created date? or the last commit date?

[fernandocastor]

From the first message: "Complete interval informed - Groundhog would download from the informed initial to the informed final date." => I'd complement this by saying this: Groundhog should be able to download projects based on an initial and a final date. Moreover, the initial and final date can refer to last commit or first commit, at least initially.

[gustavopinto]

This is the point!

I'm not sure of this, but, I think that we can only have information about the first commit if we have already downloaded the source code.

[fernandocastor]

That's the case only if we rely on Github for that. If we rely on Git (and probably SVN as well), that information is readily available with commands such as `git log'.

[rodrigoalvesvieira]

Actually @gustavopinto, we can perform the search using the GitHub API directly avoiding the download and extraction of the project.

You might wanna look at this issue #41

And these examples:

• https://api.github.com/repos/spgroup/groundhog/commits
• https://api.github.com/repos/spgroup/groundhog/commits/a4a5da8f12f9aa67ab82477abea58e96cbbc8cfd

[gustavopinto]

hmm... it is really cool :D