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I'm trying to get the total number of repositories a user has contributed to since GitHub launched in 2008. My first impression was that I could get this number from GraphQLs repositoriesContributedTo.totalCount object. As explained in https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/24350 and the GraphQL documentation, however, this object seems to give the results for the last year. Since this object doesn't have a from and to argument, I could not find an easy way to loop through all years to get the total repositoriesContributedTo. For my use case, it would be fantastic if you could change the period of the repositoriesContributedTo.totalCount object from GitHub's onset to the current time. Alternatively, adding the date selector arguments (i.e. from and to) to the repositoriesContributedTo.totalCount object would significantly improve the user experience.

Current behaviour

The only way I currently found for retrieving the total number of PUBLIC repositories a user has contributed to is looping through all years in the contributionsCollection.totalRepositoriesWithContributedCommits object via the from and to arguments.

query userInfo($login: String!) {
  user(login: $login) {
    name
    repositoriesContributedTo(
      contributionTypes: [COMMIT, ISSUE, PULL_REQUEST, REPOSITORY]
    ) {
      totalCount
    }
    contributionsCollection(from:"2020-11-20T15:45:00.000Z", to:"2021-11-20T15:45:00.000Z") {
      totalRepositoriesWithContributedCommits
    }
  }
}

{"login": "rickstaa"}

This, however, also includes the repositories a user owns, so I still need to filter these repositories out, which costs additional GraphQL points and requires unnecessary code.

New behaviour

It would be great if you could provide the repositoriesContributedTo directly like in the followers object:

query userInfo($login: String!) {
  user(login: $login) {
    name
    repositoriesContributedTo(
      contributionTypes: [COMMIT, ISSUE, PULL_REQUEST, REPOSITORY]
    ) {
      totalCount
    }
  }
}

{"login": "rickstaa"}

Or add the date selector arguments to the repositoriesContributedTo object:

query userInfo($login: String!) {
  user(login: $login) {
    name
    repositoriesContributedTo(
      from:"2020-11-20T15:45:00.000Z", to:"2021-11-20T15:45:00.000Z",
      contributionTypes: [COMMIT, ISSUE, PULL_REQUEST, REPOSITORY]
    ) {
      totalCount
    }
  }
}

{"login": "rickstaa"}