How to get total number of commits using Bitbucket REST API

[msteppe91]

Following the request format:

/rest/api/1.0/projects/{projectKey}/repos/{repositorySlug}/commits

and adding the withCounts parameter as documented here (https://docs.atlassian.com/bitbucket-server/rest/5.16.0/bitbucket-rest.html#idm8283059312), I do not get the total number of commits. I only seem to get the total commits on the page of results I’m requesting. The count does not include results from other results pages if the limit parameter paginates the values. 

Is this limitation by design or is this a bug? I am looking for the total commit number before running a python script asynchronously to speed up the requests returned from the server. 

Thanks!