fix: two-pass merged-PR fetch to defeat GitHub 1000-result search cap#6
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GitHub's Search API hard-caps at 1000 results regardless of pagination. With sort:updated-desc, the least-recently-updated PRs fall off the cap. For users with >1000 merged PRs in 12 months, that silently drops items in qualifying repos from the card's filtered count. Fix: when the first pass (updated-desc) returns fewer items than totalCount, run a second pass with sort:updated-asc and dedupe by URL. Effective ceiling: ~2000 unique items. cappedMerged now reflects whether items actually cover totalCount instead of the coarse `merged >= 1000`. Verified against costajohnt's account: 1074 totalCount, previously fetched 1000 items (102 external, 101 in 50+ star repos). Two-pass recovers all 1074, yielding 114 merged PRs in 50+ star external repos (matches the expected count within search-index lag). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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sort:updated-descdrops the oldest-updated PRs, undercounting users with >1000 merged PRs/year.sort:updated-desc+sort:updated-asc, deduped by URL) raises the effective ceiling to ~2000.cappedMergednow reflects whether items actually covertotalCountinstead of the coarsemerged >= 1000.Test plan
pnpm test(116/116 pass; added 2 tests, updated 1)pnpm run typecheckcleantotalCount, 114 merged PRs in 50+ star external repos (was 101)🤖 Generated with Claude Code