How can I search for a commit message on GitHub?

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ripper234 picture ripper234 · Aug 8, 2013 · Viewed 107.4k times · Source

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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dsldsl picture dsldsl · Oct 23, 2013

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.

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