Can you search github network commit messages?

Question

Upon brief Google and SO search, I couldn't find any info on this. I am looking at this Github repo which hasn't been updated for years, but there are many forks that are still being developed actively. Is there any way to search through commit messages from different forks of this Github repo network?

Answer 1

Beside the Google search already mentioned, another more precise alternative, if that repo is not too big, is to:

• list all the forks with this API GET /repos/:owner/:repo/forks
• clone them, and do a git grep in each of those local clones.

That way, you are sure to have a complete search.
See also the python frost-nzcr4/find_forks script.