alt Hacker News> It’s not obvious what fields that you request are simple reads from tables or actually end up invoking git under the hood.
I'm not familiar with graphql but what would make something "invoke git", is it a technical thing or hyperbole?
> It’s not obvious what fields that you request are simple reads from tables or actually end up invoking git under the hood.
I'm not familiar with graphql but what would make something "invoke git", is it a technical thing or hyperbole?
My over-simplified explanation: the graphql server will map a field on a request to a resolver. The resolver can execute whatever code it needs to return the value, up to and including calls into libgit.
So asking for the title of a PR might just be an extra column selected on a DB query. But calculating mergability status of that PR might be something else entirely.