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Article version: Enterprise Server 2.17

Visualizing commits in a repository

You can see all commits made to a repository in the past year (excluding merge commits) in the Commit graph.

This repository insights graph is available in public repositories with GitHub Free and GitHub Free for organizations, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server.

The top graph shows commits for the entire year by week.

Repository commit year graph

The bottom graph shows the average number of commits by day of the week for the selected week.

Repository commit week graph

Accessing the commits graph

  1. On GitHub Enterprise, navigate to the main page of the repository.
  2. Under your repository name, click Insights.
    Insights tab in the main repository navigation bar
  3. In the left sidebar, click Commits.
    Commits tab

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