whereareiam · Oct 23, 2026 · Oct 22, 2026
diff --git a/public/pull-commits.css → ...epository/commit-groups/commit-groups.css b/public/pull-commits.css → ...epository/commit-groups/commit-groups.css
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-/* PR and compare-page date groups build on the global commit-row component. */
-:is(.github-pull-review, .github-compare) .pull-commit-group {
+/* GitHub's commit history: a timeline of days, each a box of commit rows (the shared commit row) under "Commits on
+   <date>". The repository history, a pull request's commits and the compare page use it. */
+.theme-commit-group {
   position: relative;
   margin-left: 16px;
   padding: 0 0 16px 24px;
@@ -37,10 +38,14 @@
       & .message {
         min-width: 0;
       }
-      & .commit-summary {
+      /* Inline text, so a title with an issue link wraps like a sentence; the shared row's inline-flex would stack its
+         pieces side by side. As specific as that rule, and loaded after it. */
+      & .message > .commit-summary {
+        display: inline;
         font-size: 16px;
         line-height: 24px;
         font-weight: 600;
+        white-space: normal;
         overflow-wrap: anywhere;
       }
       & .metadata {
@@ -67,7 +72,7 @@
   }
 }
 @media (max-width: 767.98px) {
-  :is(.github-pull-review, .github-compare) .pull-commit-group {
+  .theme-commit-group {
     margin-left: 8px;
     padding-left: 16px;
     & > ul > li.gitea-github-theme-commit {

diff --git a/components/repository/commit-groups/commit-groups.tmpl b/components/repository/commit-groups/commit-groups.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{{/* Commits grouped by the day they were committed, newest first as Forgejo lists them, each day a box of shared
+commit rows. Called with the page context. */}}
+{{$previousDate := ""}}
+{{range .Commits}}
+  {{$time := .Committer.When}}{{if not $time}}{{$time = .Author.When}}{{end}}
+  {{$date := $time.Format "2006-01-02"}}
+  {{if ne $date $previousDate}}
+    {{if ne $previousDate ""}}</ul></article>{{end}}
+    {{$previousDate = $date}}
+    <article class="theme-commit-group">
+      <h3>{{svg "octicon-git-commit" 16}}Commits on {{$time.Format "Jan 2, 2006"}}</h3>
+      <ul class="gitea-github-theme-templates-commits-list">
+  {{end}}
+    {{template "repo/commit_list_item" dict "Commit" . "Page" $}}
+{{end}}
+{{if ne $previousDate ""}}</ul></article>{{end}}
diff --git a/scripts/assembleForgejo.ts b/scripts/assembleForgejo.ts
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ for (const directory of ["common", "project", "repository"]) {
 }
 
 for (const file of [
+  "commits.css",
   "dashboard-lists.css",
   "organization.css",
   "profile-subpages.css",

diff --git a/src/build-output.test.ts b/src/build-output.test.ts
@@ -544,6 +544,24 @@ describe("Forgejo 15 native integration", () => {
     );
   });
 
+  it("shows the repository history as GitHub's Commits page grouped by day", () => {
+    const read = (...parts: string[]) => fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT_DIR, ...parts), "utf-8");
+    const commits = read("templates", "repo", "commits.tmpl");
+    expect(commits).toContain('{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.commits"}}');
+    expect(commits).not.toContain('template "repo/sub_menu"');
+    expect(commits).toContain('"Items" "repo/commits_search_scope"');
+    for (const list of [
+      ["templates", "repo", "commits_list.tmpl"],
+      ["templates", "repo", "pulls", "commits_list.tmpl"],
+    ])
+      expect(read(...list)).toContain('template "components/repository/commit-groups/commit-groups"');
+    expect(read("components", "repository", "commit-groups", "commit-groups.tmpl")).toContain(
+      '<article class="theme-commit-group">'
+    );
+    expect(fs.existsSync(path.join(ROOT_DIR, "public", "pull-commits.css"))).toBe(false);
+    expect(read("templates", "base", "component_assets.tmpl")).toContain("/css/components/pages/commits.css");
+  });
+
   it("matches GitHub's repository About, visibility, and code-search details", () => {
     const headerStyle = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT_DIR, "styles", "templates", "repo", "header.ts"), "utf-8");
     const headerTemplate = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT_DIR, "templates", "repo", "home_header.tmpl"), "utf-8");
@@ -582,7 +600,10 @@ describe("Forgejo 15 native integration", () => {
       path.join(ROOT_DIR, "templates", "repo", "latest_commit_row.tmpl"),
       "utf-8"
     );
-    const commitsListTemplate = fs.readFileSync(path.join(ROOT_DIR, "templates", "repo", "commits_list.tmpl"), "utf-8");
+    const commitsListTemplate = fs.readFileSync(
+      path.join(ROOT_DIR, "components", "repository", "commit-groups", "commit-groups.tmpl"),
+      "utf-8"
+    );
     const commitSubjectTemplate = fs.readFileSync(
       path.join(ROOT_DIR, "templates", "repo", "commit_message_subject.tmpl"),
       "utf-8"

diff --git a/styles/pages/commits.css b/styles/pages/commits.css
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/* Commit history: GitHub's heading over a branch and search toolbar, then the commits grouped by day. Kept as a page
+   stylesheet, outside the size-limited theme files. */
+.github-commits-title {
+  margin: 0 0 16px;
+  padding-bottom: 8px;
+  border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-light-border);
+  font-size: 24px;
+  font-weight: 600;
+  line-height: 36px;
+}
+
+.github-commits-toolbar {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-wrap: wrap;
+  align-items: center;
+  justify-content: space-between;
+  gap: 8px;
+  margin-bottom: 16px;
+}
+
+.github-commits-ref,
+.github-commits-actions,
+.github-commits-search {
+  display: flex;
+  align-items: center;
+  gap: 8px;
+  min-width: 0;
+}
+
+.github-commits-ref .repo-path {
+  margin: 0;
+  font-size: 16px;
+}
+
+.github-commits-search .theme-search-field {
+  width: 260px;
+}
+
+.github-commits-renamed {
+  margin: 0 0 16px;
+  color: var(--color-text-light-1);
+  font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+@media (max-width: 767.98px) {
+  .github-commits-actions {
+    flex: 1 1 100%;
+    flex-wrap: wrap;
+  }
+
+  .github-commits-search {
+    flex: 1 1 100%;
+  }
+
+  .github-commits-search .theme-search-field {
+    flex: 1;
+    width: auto;
+  }
+}
diff --git a/templates/base/component_assets.tmpl b/templates/base/component_assets.tmpl
@@ -18,10 +18,12 @@
 <script src="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/js/components/common/dropdown/dropdown.js" defer></script>
 <script src="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/js/components/common/dropdown/open-animation.js" defer></script>
 <script src="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/js/branch-selector.js" defer></script>
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/components/repository/commit-groups/commit-groups.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/components/repository/label/list.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/components/repository/milestone/milestone.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/components/repository/results/results.css">
 <script src="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/js/components/repository/results/results.js" defer></script>
+<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/components/pages/commits.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/components/pages/dashboard-lists.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/components/pages/organization.css">
 <link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/components/pages/profile-subpages.css">

diff --git a/templates/repo/commits.tmpl b/templates/repo/commits.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+{{/* GitHub's commit history: a "Commits" heading over a toolbar with the branch picker on the left and the search and
+commit graph on the right, then the commits grouped by day. GitHub shows no commit, branch and tag counters here. */}}
+{{template "base/head" .}}
+{{$scope := ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.search_branch"}}{{if .All}}{{$scope = ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.search_all"}}{{end}}
+<div role="main" aria-label="{{.Title}}" class="page-content repository commits github-commits">
+	<div class="ui container">
+		{{template "base/alert" .}}
+		<h1 class="github-commits-title">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.commits"}}</h1>
+		<div class="github-commits-toolbar">
+			<div class="github-commits-ref">
+				{{template "repo/branch_dropdown" dict "root" .}}
+				{{template "repo/filepath" .}}
+			</div>
+			<div class="github-commits-actions">
+				<form class="ignore-dirty github-commits-search" action="{{.RepoLink}}/commits/{{.BranchNameSubURL}}/search" role="search">
+					{{template "components/common/search/search" dict "Kind" "icon" "Value" .Keyword "Placeholder" (ctx.Locale.Tr "search.commit_kind") "Label" (ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.search.tooltip")}}
+					{{template "components/common/dropdown/dropdown" dict "Kind" "single" "Label" $scope "UpdateLabel" true "Items" "repo/commits_search_scope" "Data" .}}
+				</form>
+				<a href="{{.RepoLink}}/graph" class="button theme-control">{{svg "octicon-git-branch" 16}}{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commit_graph"}}</a>
+			</div>
+		</div>
+		{{if .Commits}}
+			{{template "repo/commits_list" .}}
+		{{else}}
+			<div class="theme-empty">
+				{{svg "octicon-git-commit" 24}}
+				<h3>{{ctx.Locale.Tr "search.no_results"}}</h3>
+			</div>
+		{{end}}
+		{{if .OldFilename}}
+			<p class="github-commits-renamed">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.renamed_from" .OldFilename}} (<a href="{{.OldFilenameHistory}}">{{ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.browse_further"}}</a>)</p>
+		{{end}}
+		{{template "base/paginate" .}}
+	</div>
+</div>
+{{template "base/footer" .}}
diff --git a/templates/repo/commits_list.tmpl b/templates/repo/commits_list.tmpl
@@ -1,8 +1,2 @@
-{{/* GitHub-style commit history using the shared commit row. */}}
-<div class="ui attached table segment commit-table">
-  <ul class="gitea-github-theme-templates-commits-list">
-    {{range .Commits}}
-      {{template "repo/commit_list_item" dict "Commit" . "Page" $}}
-    {{end}}
-  </ul>
-</div>
+{{/* GitHub groups a repository's history by day, as on a pull request's commits. */}}
+{{template "components/repository/commit-groups/commit-groups" .}}
diff --git a/templates/repo/commits_search_scope.tmpl b/templates/repo/commits_search_scope.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+{{template "components/common/dropdown/option" dict "Type" "radio" "Name" "all" "Value" "false" "Label" (ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.search_branch") "Checked" (not .All)}}
+{{template "components/common/dropdown/option" dict "Type" "radio" "Name" "all" "Value" "true" "Label" (ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.search_all") "Checked" .All}}
diff --git a/templates/repo/diff/compare.tmpl b/templates/repo/diff/compare.tmpl
@@ -228,7 +228,6 @@
 	</div>
 
 	{{if $showDiffBox}}
-	<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/pull-commits.css">
 	<div class="ui container">
 		{{if and .Commits (gt .CommitCount 0)}}
 			{{/* GitHub's summary row and its commits grouped by day. */}}

diff --git a/templates/repo/pulls/commits.tmpl b/templates/repo/pulls/commits.tmpl
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 {{template "base/head" .}}
-<link rel="stylesheet" href="{{AssetUrlPrefix}}/css/pull-commits.css">
 <div role="main" aria-label="{{.Title}}" class="page-content repository view issue pull commits github-pull-review">
 	<div class="ui container">
 		{{template "repo/issue/view_title" .}}

diff --git a/templates/repo/pulls/commits_list.tmpl b/templates/repo/pulls/commits_list.tmpl
@@ -1,15 +1 @@
-{{/* Retain Forgejo's chronological grouping and reuse the history-row component. */}}
-{{$previousDate := ""}}
-{{range .Commits}}
-  {{$time := .Committer.When}}{{if not $time}}{{$time = .Author.When}}{{end}}
-  {{$date := $time.Format "2006-01-02"}}
-  {{if ne $date $previousDate}}
-    {{if ne $previousDate ""}}</ul></article>{{end}}
-    {{$previousDate = $date}}
-    <article class="pull-commit-group">
-      <h3>{{svg "octicon-git-commit" 16}}Commits on {{$time.Format "Jan 2, 2006"}}</h3>
-      <ul class="gitea-github-theme-templates-commits-list">
-  {{end}}
-    {{template "repo/commit_list_item" dict "Commit" . "Page" $}}
-{{end}}
-{{if ne $previousDate ""}}</ul></article>{{end}}
+{{template "components/repository/commit-groups/commit-groups" .}}
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		@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
		{{template "components/common/dropdown/option" dict "Type" "radio" "Name" "all" "Value" "false" "Label" (ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.search_branch") "Checked" (not .All)}}
		{{template "components/common/dropdown/option" dict "Type" "radio" "Name" "all" "Value" "true" "Label" (ctx.Locale.Tr "repo.commits.search_all") "Checked" .All}}