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repos

List commits

Signature verification object

The response will include a verification object that describes the result of verifying the commit's signature. The following fields are included in the verification object:

Name	Type	Description
verified	boolean	Indicates whether GitHub considers the signature in this commit to be verified.
reason	string	The reason for verified value. Possible values and their meanings are enumerated in table below.
signature	string	The signature that was extracted from the commit.
payload	string	The value that was signed.
verified_at	string	The date the signature was verified by GitHub.

These are the possible values for reason in the verification object:

Value	Description
expired_key	The key that made the signature is expired.
not_signing_key	The "signing" flag is not among the usage flags in the GPG key that made the signature.
gpgverify_error	There was an error communicating with the signature verification service.
gpgverify_unavailable	The signature verification service is currently unavailable.
unsigned	The object does not include a signature.
unknown_signature_type	A non-PGP signature was found in the commit.
no_user	No user was associated with the committer email address in the commit.
unverified_email	The committer email address in the commit was associated with a user, but the email address is not verified on their account.
bad_email	The committer email address in the commit is not included in the identities of the PGP key that made the signature.
unknown_key	The key that made the signature has not been registered with any user's account.
malformed_signature	There was an error parsing the signature.
invalid	The signature could not be cryptographically verified using the key whose key-id was found in the signature.
valid	None of the above errors applied, so the signature is considered to be verified.

get/repos/{owner}/{repo}/commits

Path parameters

ownerstring required

The account owner of the repository. The name is not case sensitive.

repostring required

The name of the repository without the .git extension. The name is not case sensitive.

Query parameters

shastring

SHA or branch to start listing commits from. Default: the repository’s default branch (usually main).

pathstring

Only commits containing this file path will be returned.

authorstring

GitHub username or email address to use to filter by commit author.

committerstring

GitHub username or email address to use to filter by commit committer.

sincestring date-time

Only show results that were last updated after the given time. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ. Due to limitations of Git, timestamps must be between 1970-01-01 and 2099-12-31 (inclusive) or unexpected results may be returned.

untilstring date-time

Only commits before this date will be returned. This is a timestamp in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ. Due to limitations of Git, timestamps must be between 1970-01-01 and 2099-12-31 (inclusive) or unexpected results may be returned.

per_pageinteger

The number of results per page (max 100). For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

pageinteger

The page number of the results to fetch. For more information, see "Using pagination in the REST API."

Response

urlstring uri required

shastring required

node_idstring required

html_urlstring uri required

comments_urlstring uri required

Example response

[
  {
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "sha": "6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "node_id": "MDY6Q29tbWl0NmRjYjA5YjViNTc4NzVmMzM0ZjYxYWViZWQ2OTVlMmU0MTkzZGI1ZQ==",
    "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/commit/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
    "comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e/comments",
    "commit": {
      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
      "author": {
        "name": "\"Chris Wanstrath\"",
        "email": "\"chris@ozmm.org\"",
        "date": "\"2007-10-29T02:42:39.000-07:00\""
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "\"Chris Wanstrath\"",
        "email": "\"chris@ozmm.org\"",
        "date": "\"2007-10-29T02:42:39.000-07:00\""
      },
      "message": "Fix all the bugs",
      "tree": {
        "sha": "827efc6d56897b048c772eb4087f854f46256132",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/tree/827efc6d56897b048c772eb4087f854f46256132"
      }
    },
    "author": {
      "login": "octocat",
      "id": 1,
      "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
      "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
      "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
      "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
      "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
      "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
      "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
      "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
      "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
      "type": "User",
      "starred_at": "\"2020-07-09T00:17:55Z\"",
      "user_view_type": "public"
    },
    "committer": {
      "login": "octocat",
      "id": 1,
      "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjE=",
      "avatar_url": "https://github.com/images/error/octocat_happy.gif",
      "gravatar_id": "41d064eb2195891e12d0413f63227ea7",
      "url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat",
      "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat",
      "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/followers",
      "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/following{/other_user}",
      "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/gists{/gist_id}",
      "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
      "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/subscriptions",
      "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/orgs",
      "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/repos",
      "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/events{/privacy}",
      "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/octocat/received_events",
      "type": "User",
      "starred_at": "\"2020-07-09T00:17:55Z\"",
      "user_view_type": "public"
    },
    "parents": [
      {
        "sha": "7638417db6d59f3c431d3e1f261cc637155684cd",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/commits/7638417db6d59f3c431d3e1f261cc637155684cd",
        "html_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/commit/7638417db6d59f3c431d3e1f261cc637155684cd"
      }
    ],
    "files": [
      {
        "sha": "bbcd538c8e72b8c175046e27cc8f907076331401",
        "filename": "file1.txt",
        "status": "added",
        "additions": 103,
        "deletions": 21,
        "changes": 124,
        "blob_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/blob/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e/file1.txt",
        "raw_url": "https://github.com/octocat/Hello-World/raw/6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e/file1.txt",
        "contents_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/contents/file1.txt?ref=6dcb09b5b57875f334f61aebed695e2e4193db5e",
        "patch": "@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ module Test @@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ module Test",
        "previous_filename": "file.txt"
      }
    ]
  }
]