How can I view a git log of just one user s commits

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When using git log  how can I filter by user so that I see only commits from that user

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My case  I m using source tree  I followed the following steps    Pressed CRL 3 Changed dropdown authors Typed the name  Vinod Kumar

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On github there is also a secret way     You can filter commits by author in the commit view by appending param  author github handle  For example  the link https   github com dynjs dynjs commits master author jingweno shows a list of commits to the Dynjs project

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This works for both git log and gitk - the 2 most common ways of viewing history  You don t need to use the whole name  git log --author  quot Jon quot   will match a commit made by  quot Jonathan Smith quot  git log --author Jon  and git log --author Smith  would also work  The quotes are optional if you don t need any spaces  Add --all if you intend to search all branches and not just the current commit s ancestors in your repo  You can also easily match on multiple authors as regex is the underlying mechanism for this filter  So to list commits by Jonathan or Adam  you can do this  git log --author  quot   Adam      Jon   quot   In order to exclude commits by a particular author or set of authors using regular expressions as noted in this question  you can use a negative lookahead in combination with the --perl-regexp switch  git log --author      Adam Jon      --perl-regexp  Alternatively  you can exclude commits authored by Adam by using bash and piping  git log --format   H  an       grep -v Adam      cut -d     -f1      xargs -n1 git log -1  If you want to exclude commits commited  but not necessarily authored  by Adam  replace  an with  cn  More details about this are in my blog post here  http   dymitruk com blog 2012 07 18 filtering-by-author-name

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You can use either   or  space   For instance following two commands return the same  git log --author  Developer1   git log --author  Developer1

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If using GitHub    go to branch  click on commits   it will show list in below format   branch x   lt  comment gt   author name committed 2 days ago    to see individual author s commit   click on author name  and there you can see all the commit s of that author on that branch

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git log --author  that user

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git help log   gives you the manpage of git log  Search for  author  there by pressing   and then typing  author   followed by Enter  Type  n  a few times to get to the relevant section  which reveals    git log --author  username    as already suggested   Note that this will give you the author of the commits  but in Git  the author can be someone different from the committer  for example in Linux kernel  if you submit a patch as an ordinary user  it might be committed by another administrative user   See Difference between author and committer in Git  for more details   Most of the time  what one refers to as the user is both the committer and the author though

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Show n number of logs for x user in colour by adding this little snippet in your  bashrc file   gitlog         if     1     amp  amp      2     then        git log --pretty format   h x09  C cyan  an x09  Creset ad x09  Cgreen s  --date-order -n   1  --author   2      elif     1     then        git log --pretty format   h x09  C cyan  an x09  Creset ad x09  Cgreen s  --date-order -n   1      else         git log --pretty format   h x09  C cyan  an x09  Creset ad x09  Cgreen s  --date-order     fi    alias l gitlog   To show the last 10 commits by Frank    l 10 frank   To show the last 20 commits by anyone    l 20

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If you want to filter your own commits   git log --author   lt   git config user email  gt

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Since the other question was  possibly wrongfully so   locked  I will just put this here   show authors with their commit counts    git shortlog -nse   find all commits for specific USERNAME    git log --author USERNAME --oneline   awk   print  1     xargs git show

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To pull more details -  Here  an refers to author   Use this  -  git log --author  username  --pretty format   h -  an   ar    s

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try this tool  https   github com kamranahmedse git-standup  Usage     bash   git standup  -a  lt author name gt                   -w  lt weekstart-weekend gt                   -m  lt max-dir-depth gt                  -f                 -L                 -d  lt days-ago gt                  -D  lt date-format gt                   -g                  -h        Below is the description for each of the flags  -  -a       - Specify author to restrict search to  name or email  -  -w       - Specify weekday range to limit search to  e g   git standup -w SUN-THU   -  -m       - Specify the depth of recursive directory search -  -L       - Toggle inclusion of symbolic links in recursive directory search -  -d       - Specify the number of days back to include -  -D       - Specify the date format for  git log   default  relative  -  -h       - Display the help screen -  -g       - Show if commit is GPG signed or not -  -f       - Fetch the latest commits beforehand

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Although  there are many useful answers  Whereas  just to add another way to it  You can also use   git shortlog --author   lt author name gt   --format   h  s    It will show the output in the grouped manner    lt Author Name gt   5     4da3975f dependencies upgraded   49172445 runtime dependencies resolved   bff3e127 user-service  kratos  and guava dependencies upgraded   414b6f1e dropwizard  - service  rmq and db-sharding depedencies upgraded   a96af8d3 older dependecies removed   Here  total of 5 commits are done by  lt Author Name gt  under the current branch  Whereas  you can also use --all to enforce the search everywhere  all the branches  in the git repository   One catch  git internally tries to match an input  lt author name gt  with the name and email of the author in the git database  It is case-sensitive

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cat   git log --author  authorName   gt  author commits details txt   This gives your commits in text format

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You can even abbreviate this a bit by simply using part of the user name   git log --author mr   if you re looking for mrfoobar s commits

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