You can search commits using search qualifiers in any combination to narrow your search results.
Tips:
- There's a list of search syntaxes you can add to any search qualifier to further improve your results.
- Use quotations around your multi-word search terms. For example, if you want to search for issues with the label "In progress," you'd search for
label:"in progress". Search is not case sensitive.
Search within commit messages
You can find commits that contain particular words in the message.
- fix typo
- Matches commits containing the words "fix" and "typo".
Search by author or committer
You can find commits by a particular user with the author or committer qualifiers.
- author:defunkt
- Matches commits authored by @defunkt.
- committer:defunkt
- Matches commits committed by @defunkt.
The author-name and committer-name qualifiers match commits by the name of the author or committer.
- author-name:wanstrath
- Matches commits with "wanstrath" in the author name.
- committer-name:wanstrath
- Matches commits with "wanstrath" in the committer name.
The author-email and committer-email qualifiers match commits by the author's or committer's full email address.
- author-email:[email protected]
- Matches commits authored by [email protected].
- committer-email:[email protected]
- Matches commits committed by [email protected].
Search within a user or organization's repositories
To find commits from all repositories owned by a certain user or organization, use the user qualifier. To find commits from a specific repository, use the repo qualifier. For example:
- user:defunkt
- Matches commits from repositories owned by @defunkt.
- repo:defunkt/gibberish
- Matches commits from @defunkt's "gibberish" repository.
Search by authored or committed date
Use the author-date and committer-date qualifiers to match commits authored or committed within the specified date range.
- author-date:
- Matches commits authored before 2016-01-01.
- committer-date:
- Matches commits committed before 2016-01-01.
Filter merge commits
The merge qualifier filters merge commits.
- merge:true
- Matches merge commits.
- merge:false
- Matches non-merge commits.
Search by hash
The hash qualifier matches commits with the specified SHA-1 hash.
- hash:124a9a0ee1d8f1e15e833aff432fbb3b02632105
- Matches commits with the hash 124a9a0ee1d8f1e15e833aff432fbb3b02632105.
Search by parent
The parent qualifier matches commits whose parent has the specified SHA-1 hash.
- parent:124a9a0ee1d8f1e15e833aff432fbb3b02632105
- Matches children of 124a9a0ee1d8f1e15e833aff432fbb3b02632105.
Filter public or private repositories
The is qualifier matches public or private commits.
- is:public
- Matches public commits.
- is:private
- Matches private commits.
Sort the results by author or committer date
Use the sort qualifier to sort by authored or committed date in descending or ascending order.
- feature sort:author-date-desc
- Sorts commits containing the word "feature" by descending author date.
- feature sort:author-date-asc
- Sorts commits containing the word "feature" by ascending author date.
- feature sort:committer-date-desc
- Sorts commits containing the word "feature" by descending committer date.
- feature sort:committer-date-asc
- Sorts commits containing the word "feature" by ascending committer date.
