On GitHub API - what is the best way to get the last commit message associated with each file?

Question

So far as I understand it, messages are associated with commits. But when you look at a repo on GitHub it helpfully lists the message by each file, for when it was last changed.

Answer 1

I'm listing commits on the repository and than grabbing the first one and reading it's SHA and it works great:

https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/commits/#list-commits-on-a-repository

In Go it looks something like this:

func GetLatestCommit(owner, repo string, sgc *github.Client) (string, error) {
    commits, res, err := sgc.Repositories.ListCommits(owner, repo, &github.CommitsListOptions{})

    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("err: %s res: %s", err, res)
        return "", err
    }

    log.Printf("last commit: %s", *commits[0].SHA)

    return *commits[0].SHA, nil
}