How do you track your comments on GitHub issues?

Question

I want to easily find all the problems that I commented on on GitHub .

I tried looking for commenter:mbigras type:issue according to the recommendation from GitHub's help finding problems .

However, this method returns fewer results than in the public activity section of my profile.

See both attached images:

Search method

Does not display current results:

Profile method

Mixed with other public activities:

Is there a way to get the full story of my comments on GitHub?

EDIT

author:mbigras type:issue gives broader results, but still not a complete story:

What I'm looking for is a way to quickly look through my entire history of comments / concerns on all issues.

EDIT

I wrote about this on GitHub. The search does not match the public activity section because the search indexes problems by the date it was created, and not by the last active date.

How do you organize, what issues have you commented on?

Answer 1

Locate commenter:username in the main Github search box.

For example commenter: gavinandresen

To see recent activity, select Recently updated from the Sort drop-down list.

You can also narrow your search to :: comment comment: gavinandresen

Answer 2

I was also very upset when I could not find the problem that I recently commented on. I did not even remember the project in which he was. I only knew the problem that I was talking about.

Then I went to the Notification Settings on Github and saw that there is an option to Enable your own updates , which is not installed by default.

Once you verify this, Github will send you an email notification of each comment or PR you make. You might want to add the appropriate label and filter for emails, so Github messages do not clutter your inbox.

My life has changed since then. Now, every time I want to find something that I wrote on Github, I just look for it in email notifications.

Answer 3

You can view all the questions on Github you commented by going to https://github.com/notifications/subscriptions and selecting Reason as Comment .

This will show all the problems you commented on.

You can also filter out problems by selecting another reason, such as Assign , Author , Manual , Mention , etc., but you can only select one reason at a time. In addition, you can filter problems by repository by selecting the appropriate repository from the drop-down list after clicking Repository

Answer 4

It may be a little late, but there is another way to find out what problems / PR you were involved in. This method also brings a lot more things that may interest you!

When you are on the github.com homepage, use the keyboard shortcuts as described here to open your queries or concerns. The abbreviation for them is, in particular, [ g , i ] for problems and [ g , p ] for retrieval requests (I remember that g by go, but everything works for you.)

After you go to the page indicated by these shortcuts, you will be greeted with a whole screen of goodies that you can use! The search bar can be edited and buttons can be used to make your experience quick!

Answer 5

In addition, since Github is online, any HTTP search engine, such as Google, Bing, etc. works. This works depending on the quality of your search engine and the uniqueness of the author’s name.

(Indeed, I actually do this all the time when I need to find any previously written web publication (engine) -accessible, including on StackExchange. I use the names 1, probably in infinity, so Google often works better than search the forum options.)

( Sample Google link .)