Hi @heidimg,

Thank you for being here! 

but looks like 1000 is the limit on query results anyway. To be able to understand the cumulative contributions, we’ll need to be able to retrieve *all* of the results for the history of the repo.

Yes that is correct, that limit is documented here: https://developer.github.com/v3/search/#search

You’ll also see the same limit in the web UI – you can’t fetch more than 1000 results via Search.

The filters which code search supports are listed here:

https://help.github.com/en/articles/searching-code

That’s what you can use to try and slice your search query into several smaller queries, run each of them (and hope each will return fewer than 1000 results), and then combine the results so that you have them all.

If you’re unable to get search to give you the results you need, you might consider using an external project like https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/github-on-bigquery-analyze-all-the-open-source-code to get the data you need.

I hope this helps!