Repository.watchersCount is same as Repository.stargazersCount
omegaui opened this issue · comments
I am currently writing a view only dashboard in Flutter using this amazing library,
While implementing the Repo-Info part, I found out that the Repository.watchersCount is exactly the same as Repository.stargazersCount.
@omegaui after some quick googling, this isn't an issue with this library. It is intended behavior from the Github API. In the past you could watch a repo. It was renamed to starring. In order to prevent breaking applications, the new field was added and the old was left. They are the same thing though.
See https://github.community/t/bug-watchers-always-same-as-stargazers-count-in-api-user-starred/14224 for the official response.