2eb9e2686dabb686c8114760abec9d5546c24fc6,doc/release/contribs.py,,,#,27

Before Change

merges = call("git log --since="%s" --merges --format=">>>%%B" --reverse" % tag_date)
merges = [m for m in merges if m.strip()]
merges = "\n".join(merges).split(">>>")
merges = [m.split("\n")[:2] for m in merges]
merges = [m for m in merges if len(m) == 2 and m[1].strip()]

num_commits = call("git rev-list %s..HEAD --count" % tag)[0]

After Change

query_string = ("user:" + USER + "+"
                + "repo:" + REPO + "+"
                + "merged:>=" + tag_date)
merges_url = ("https://api.github.com/search/issues?"
              + urlencode(dict(q=query_string)))
merges = urlopen(merges_url)
merges = merges["items"]
PRs = []

print("It contained the following %d merged pull requests:\n" % len(merges))

Instances