How To Use Gitlogs to Source & Recruit on GitHub

Use Gitlogs to delve deeper into GitHub and find more people!

Gitlogs is a free tool that aggregates all the GitHub project logs and allows you to search within them. Search or browse through topics, see what the top trends are, and you can also use it for sourcing!

When looking at any project you’ve found through Gitlogs, you can get into the commits and add the .patch to the URL to find the contact information for the developer that worked on it. Or, use this in combination with the GitHub email tool to skip that part and then all you need is their username!

When testing this, we noticed that we were able to find people that we weren’t able to find when directly searching in GitHub. Gitlogs opens up more searchable data for your GitHub sourcing!

~Noel Cocca

Now a look inside with Dean DaCosta:

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