[support question] How to find all my comments

[omega3]

Is there an option to list or search for all my comments written across various GitHub projects, usually on issues tabs?

[Gustavonn07]

Hey, how are you? I didn't understand your question very well, but if you're talking about commits, you can find them in this part here:

all updates made to your project and the comments you made when updating with commits (like git commit -m "comment")
I'm sorry for my bad English, I hope I helped!

[omega3]

I my issues I see Created, Assigned, Mentioned. What about all that I written but I didn't started, I am not assigned and were not mentioned? How to find all my comments in issues of any project?

[kakam360]

Great thanks for this❤

[githorse]

This should definitely be included in the "Filters" menu. I always think that "everything mentioning you" will do this, but it doesn't work.

[Gustavonn07]

To find all your comments in the issues of any project on GitHub, you can use the GitHub search functionality with a specific query. Here's how you can do it:

1. In the search bar at the top, enter the following query:

is:issue commenter:your_username
2. Replace your_username with your actual GitHub username. This query searches for all issues where you have commented.

3. Press Enter or click on the search icon.

GitHub will display a list of issues where you have commented, regardless of whether you created them, were assigned to them, or were mentioned in them.

You can further refine your search by adding additional filters to the query if you want to narrow down the results. For example, you can specify a particular repository or search for comments within a specific timeframe. Here's an example query that includes a repository filter:

is:issue commenter:your_username repo:username/repository_name
2. Replace your_username with your GitHub username and username/repository_name with the username and name of the repository where you want to search for comments.

Using these search queries, you should be able to find all your comments in the issues of any project on GitHub, even if you didn't create them, weren't assigned to them, and weren't mentioned in them.

example:

Hope this helps!

[elainajones]

Thanks! This helped me too. I wish they'd add a UI option. Commenting for visibility.

[realyukii]

is there a similar way for gists? I tried this query and it didn't work.

also tried user:realyukii but unfortunately, it only shows my gists not my comment on other ppl gists.

reference: docs

[YuZhang-GitHub]

Working perfectly. Thanks a lot!

[0xfeeddeadbeef]

I tried to find a PR comment I made a week ago and it does not show up in search results.

[softyoda]

Could anyone add a button to do that? (idk affordance, i don't have to remember this command please...)

[IPlayZed]

How is this related to this issue...?

[craigphicks]

@ IPlayZed

How is this related to this issue...?

Spam is related to everything. And nothing.

[IPlayZed]

It is OK, if OP of the comment needs help, but it should be in a new discussion.

[craigphicks]

It is advertising for some application "Linea". Given that the first entry is "wallet connected" I would say it is probably malware.

[shodanx2]

This doesn't work ?

Here for example

but I just made a comment in an issue today, and it does not show up.

Example

This was posted 20 minutes ago and it does not show up in the search

I would like a place that just has all my lastest comments in it.

It should be right here

[dlong500]

I have the same issue as @shodanx2. Using commenter: or involves: without specifying a repo doesn't seem to show everything (only a partial list). Not sure if there is some indexing that only gets updated once a week or something. It would be nice to get clarification from the github folks on this matter.

For example, I have a comment I made 5 days ago in a particular repo that doesn't show up. However, if I specify the repo: in the search it does show up. My best guess would be that the indexes used for sitewide searches only get periodically refreshed. I'm curious to test if the particular comment shows up when searching in a couple days.

[dlong500]

It does appear that there is a week or two delay before posts get indexed github-wide. The comment I mentioned earlier is now showing in a global search using commenter:@me. So that is something to bear in mind when trying to find content. Also worth noting is that the default "Best Match" sort seems to mostly just sort by newest to oldest based on the opening date of the issue (NOT your comment dates). Changing the sort to "Recently updated" will likely give more useful results in the context of this discussion.

[profucius]

I haven't noticed it being that long of a delay. I just tried it myself, and I found a comment I made just an hour ago show up in my filter. You may want to change the filter order to "Recently updated" to see comments you've made in tickets that were recently updated. It's not technically when you updated it but when the ticket was, but it's pretty close.

[Visikde]

Go to your profile, scroll down, keep clicking "show more activity" until you find the post(s) you are looking for

[oldium]

This does not work for commit comments. How to find my comments to various code commits? They are even not shown in recent actvity.

[burak-yildizoz]

I have the same question with @realyukii. Is it possible to search comments on gists?

[webdev23]

Cluttered and non functioning properly.

[judos]

For me it also doesn't work when search via query, or the autocomplete, with either "user:" or "commenter:" and also with either my username or "@me". Is it broken currently?

[aherrick]

I built this to show my comments on issues/discussions and when that thread was last touched/updated. It's insane I had to build something custom for this. https://github.com/aherrick/GitHubActivityViewer

commenter:your-username only shows when the thread was last closed, etc. but thats worthless if the conversation continues on while "closed"

[shodanx2]

Thanks !
This works !

For example my latest comment
Qalculate/libqalculate#78 (comment)

Here is the result for commenter:shodanx2 plus SORT BY NEWEST
https://github.com/search?q=commenter%3Ashodanx2&type=discussions&s=date_created&o=desc

Here is the result of demo of GitHubActivityViewer by aherrick

So as long as https://githubajh.z19.web.core.windows.net/ works, we have a solution at last !

[shuttittuppitt]

All of the comments (in this topic) from developers (or moderators or whatever title github gives such people) seem to be just workarounds. We appreciate those (when they work), but what we really need is for our USER PROFILE PAGE (or whatever it's called) to have a section that's called "COMMENTS HISTORY".

I don't expect this change to be made any time soon, but it's really the ONLY way to let people do this, because these workarounds themselves require people to (somehow) 'know' about them (even though this lonely topic is the only part of Github that I'VE ever even heard about them), & sometimes the workarounds don't work.

[craigphicks]

A live video of a hunger striking coder might bring some visibility to the issue.

[bencutting164-cloud]

That’s a handy trick, I didn’t realize you could filter by commenter across issues. Makes it way easier to track past discussions without digging through repos manually. Thanks for sharing.