How to get the list of commits between two commits using Azdo rest API

Question

I tried using commits rest api but it's listing the entire commit instead of the expected ones.

Used API like this: https://dev.azure.com/xxx/xxxx/_apis/git/repositories/xxxxx/commits?api-version=7.0&searchCriteria.fromCommitId={fromcommit}&searchCriteria.toCommitId={tocommit}

Answer 1

I tried using commits rest api but it's listing the entire commit instead of the expected ones.

In order to get the list of commits between two commits, it is better to use searchCriteria.fromDate={searchCriteria.fromDate}&searchCriteria.toDate={searchCriteria.toDate}. It will provide you the commits as per the created date.

If you intend to use searchCriteria.fromCommitId={searchCriteria.fromCommitId}&searchCriteria.toCommitId={searchCriteria.toCommitId}, then it will provide you results either in alphabetical order if commit Ids are started with letters like a*****1 to g*****0 or in numerical order if commit Ids are started with numbers like 0*****321 to 5******g23.

I am using the below URL-

GET https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/git/repositories/{repositoryId}/commits?searchCriteria.fromDate={searchCriteria.fromDate}&searchCriteria.toDate={searchCriteria.toDate}&api-version=7.1-preview.1

I am getting the expected results as shown below-

References-

Rest-api-to-get-all-commit-info-between-base and target commit.