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How can I filter GitHub commits by date range, in a friendlier way than git log?
We have a repository hosted on GitHub. I'm trying to track down a bug and have narrowed the date range for when it could have been introduced. I would like to easily review commits in that date range, and ideally I'd like to get other team members to help in this review.
I know that from the command line I can use git log with --since and --until options, but that just gets me a log -- a list of commit hashes and messages -- on my local machine. In order to see what happened, I have to jump through some extra hoops client-side, and that's a necessarily solitary activity.
What I would like, instead, is a way to produce that list on the web, with the commit hashes being links to the commits like they are in the full history on GitHub, so that it's easy to browse the many commits in the date range to get a sense of what changed and zero in on the likely suspects. If I could do this on the web, I could share links to specific changes of possible interest with team members who are better qualified than I am to evaluate them.
I searched for a solution and found more people with my problem, but no answer. I found an open issue for a third-party package requesting search by date range, but nothing for GitHub itself.
How can I see GitHub commits in a date range with GitHub's usual convenient links and changelists/diffs?
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