Recover lost (force-pushed) commit from GitHub

get-github-events.js

#!/usr/bin/env node

var debug = false;
var authorizationString = null;
// uncomment and fill-in when authorization is needed
//authorizationString = 'Basic <base64encoded username:password>';
	
var querystring = require('querystring');
var https = require('https');


getEventsPerRepo("Icenium/icenium-cli");
//getEventsPerUser("mbektchiev");
//doesn't work for some reason ... recoverCommit("Icenium/Ice", "e0a311beb90e674953a8babe4d1f00fec037a635", "bektchiev/temp-branch");

function getEventsPerRepo(repoId) {
	performRequest(
		"api.github.com", 
		"/repos/" + repoId + "/events?page=3",
		"get", 
		{}, 
		function (data) {
			if (!(data instanceof Array)) {
				throw new Error("Invalid response for "+ repoId +" from GitHub: " + JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
			}
			
			console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
		}
	);
}

function getEventsPerUser(userName) {
	performRequest(
		"api.github.com", 
		"/users/" + userName + "/events",
		"get", 
		{}, 
		function (data) {
			if (!(data instanceof Array)) {
				throw new Error("Invalid response for "+ repoId +" from GitHub: " + JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
			}
			
			console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
		}
	);
}

// Adds a branch pointing to the specified commit (I couldn't make this work :( )
function recoverCommit(repoId, commitId, newBranchName) {
	var data = { ref: "refs/heads/" + newBranchName, sha: commitId };
	performRequest(
		"api.github.com", 
		"repos/" + repoId + "/git/refs",
		"POST", 
		data, 
		function (data) {
			if (!(data instanceof Array)) {
				throw new Error("Invalid response for "+ repoId +" from GitHub: " + JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
			}
			console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
			});
}		
		
function performRequest(host, endpoint, method, data, success) {
  var dataString = JSON.stringify(data);
  var headers = {};
  
  if (method == 'GET') {
    endpoint += '?' + querystring.stringify(data);
  }
  else {
    headers = {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'Content-Length': dataString.length,
      'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.131 Safari/537.36',
    };
	if (authorizationString ) {
		headers['Authorization'] = authorizationString;
	}

  }
  var options = {
    host: host,
    path: endpoint,
    method: method,
    headers: headers
  };
  
  if (debug) console.log(JSON.stringify(options));  
  var req = https.request(options, function(res) {
    res.setEncoding('utf-8');

    var responseString = '';

    res.on('data', function(data) {
      responseString += data;
    });

    res.on('end', function() {
      var responseObject = JSON.parse(responseString);
      success(responseObject);
    });
  });

  req.write(dataString);
  req.end();
}



return 0;