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Not in a Git repository, but rather in GitHub specifically - how do I search just the commit messages of a specific repository/branch?
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You can search for commits on GitHub and narrow the results using these commit search qualifiers in any combination. You can search for commits globally across all of GitHub, or search for commits within a particular repository or organization.
On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository. On the main page of the repository, click the commits to navigate to the commits page. Navigate to the commit by clicking the commit message link. To see what branch the commit is on, check the label below the commit message.
To find a git commit id/hash by a full or partial commit message, you can use the git log command with the --grep=<pattern> option (where the " pattern " is a regular expression pattern).
On GitHub.com, you can access your project history by selecting the commit button from the code tab on your project. Locally, you can use git log . The git log command enables you to display a list of all of the commits on your current branch. By default, the git log command presents a lot of information all at once.
You used to be able to do this, but GitHub removed this feature at some point mid-2013. To achieve this locally, you can do:
git log -g --grep=STRING (Use the -g flag if you want to search other branches and dangling commits.)
-g, --walk-reflogs Instead of walking the commit ancestry chain, walk reflog entries from the most recent one to older ones. If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
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