Show commits by author
It's useful to see a list of commits by author for a project, and also by branch. GitHub supports this by project (not branch). We should add this because it is very useful for quickly looking up what someone has been working on.
Example: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/commits?author=rymai
Proposal
Currently the BE only supports searching by message OR author, not both at the same time. But we can do this iteratively and still deliver value to users. We can place an Author dropdown next to the Filter by commit message input. Here's a very rough mockup, using the Author field from the To-Do List:
If the user filters the list by one of these fields, the other field would be disabled with a tooltip explaining why. Something like: Filtering by both author and message is not supported at the moment.
Future steps
Once the author AND message filtering is unblocked by gitaly#2431 (closed) we should create the necessary issues to solve the BE and FE in an upcoming milestone.
Links
https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/commits?author=rymai