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So for looking for commits by “Adam Dymitruk” it's easier to just type git log --author="Adam" or use the last name if there more contributors with the same first name.
On GitHub, you can see the commit history of a repository by: Navigating directly to the commits page of a repository. Clicking on a file, then clicking History, to get to the commit history for a specific file.
The most basic and powerful tool to do this is the git log command. By default, with no arguments, git log lists the commits made in that repository in reverse chronological order; that is, the most recent commits show up first.
If the author has a GitHub account, just click the author's username from anywhere in the commit history, and the commits you can see will be filtered down to those by that author:
You can also click the 'n commits' link below their name on the repo's "contributors" page:
Alternatively, you can directly append ?author=<theusername> or ?author=<emailaddress> to the URL. For example, https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commits/master?author=dmethvin or https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commits/[email protected] both give me:
For authors without a GitHub account, only filtering by email address will work, and you will need to manually add ?author=<emailaddress> to the URL - the author's name will not be clickable from the commits list.
You can also get the list of commits by a particular author from the command line using
git log --author=[your git name]
Example:
git log --author=Prem
Just add ?author=<emailaddress> or ?author=<githubUserName> to the url when viewing the "commits" section of a repo.
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