Visualizing commits in a repository
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Certain contributor, commit, and code frequency insights are only available for repositories that have fewer than 10,000 commits.
You can see all commits made to a repository in the past year (excluding merge commits) in the Commit graph.
The top graph shows commits for the entire year by week. The bottom graph shows the average number of commits by day of the week for the selected week.
Accessing the commits graph
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On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
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Under your repository name, click Insights.
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In the left sidebar, click Commits.
Visualizing additions and deletion to content in a repository
Note
Certain contributor, commit, and code frequency insights are only available for repositories that have fewer than 10,000 commits.
The code frequency graph displays the content additions and deletions for each week in a repository's history.
Accessing the code frequency graph
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On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
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Under your repository name, click Insights.
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In the left sidebar, click Code frequency.
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Optionally, to view the graph as a table, in the top-right corner of the graph, click . Then click View as table.
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Optionally, to download a CSV or PNG, in the top-right corner of the graph, click . Then click Download CSV or Download PNG.
If you want to see a detailed history of changes to a repository, you can use the activity view. The activity view displays all pushes, merges, force pushes, and branch changes, and associates these changes with commits and authenticated users. For more information, see Using the activity view to see changes to a repository.