Is there any way on GitHub to list all commits made by a single author, in the browser (neither locally, e.g. via git log, nor via the API)?
Clicking on a user name in the list of commits (Commit History) simply leads to that user's profile page. Examining the GitHub UI and searching (Google, StackOverflow) does not reveal a way to do this.
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 
Replace torvalds with Github username of the author you want.
https://github.com/search?o=desc&s=committer-date&type=Commits&q=author:torvalds
You will see all commits the author made to all repositories sorted by commit date descending.
Just add ?author=<emailaddress> or ?author=<githubUserName> to the url when viewing the "commits" section of a repo.
GitHub provides this in the UI now.
Navigate to the commit history for any branch, and then you can optionally choose the author and a date range (or switch the branch).
