diff --git a/github/MainClass.py b/github/MainClass.py
index 579b1d83a6..5b626ad265 100644
--- a/github/MainClass.py
+++ b/github/MainClass.py
@@ -598,19 +598,15 @@ def search_commits(
         """
         assert isinstance(query, str), query
         url_parameters = dict()
-        if (
-            sort is not github.GithubObject.NotSet
-        ):  # pragma no branch (Should be covered)
+        if sort is not github.GithubObject.NotSet:
             assert sort in ("author-date", "committer-date"), sort
             url_parameters["sort"] = sort
-        if (
-            order is not github.GithubObject.NotSet
-        ):  # pragma no branch (Should be covered)
+        if order is not github.GithubObject.NotSet:
             assert order in ("asc", "desc"), order
             url_parameters["order"] = order
 
         query_chunks = []
-        if query:  # pragma no branch (Should be covered)
+        if query:
             query_chunks.append(query)
 
         for qualifier, value in qualifiers.items():
diff --git a/tests/ReplayData/Search.testSearchCommits.txt b/tests/ReplayData/Search.testSearchCommits.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..357d2fcd15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/ReplayData/Search.testSearchCommits.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+https
+GET
+api.github.com
+None
+/search/commits?sort=author-date&order=asc&q=hash%3A1265747e992ba7d34a469b6b2f527809f8bf7067+merge%3Afalse&per_page=1
+{'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.cloak-preview', 'Authorization': 'Basic login_and_password_removed', 'User-Agent': 'PyGithub/Python'}
+None
+200
+[('Server', 'GitHub.com'), ('Date', 'Thu, 21 Oct 2021 04:54:24 GMT'), ('Content-Type', 'application/json; charset=utf-8'), ('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked'), ('Cache-Control', 'no-cache'), ('Vary', 'Accept, Authorization, Cookie, X-GitHub-OTP, Accept-Encoding, Accept, X-Requested-With'), ('X-OAuth-Scopes', 'admin:enterprise, admin:gpg_key, admin:org, admin:org_hook, admin:public_key, admin:repo_hook, delete:packages, delete_repo, gist, notifications, repo, user, workflow, write:discussion, write:packages'), ('X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes', ''), ('X-GitHub-Media-Type', 'github.v3; param=cloak-preview'), ('Link', '<https://api.github.com/search/commits?sort=author-date&order=asc&q=hash%3A1265747e992ba7d34a469b6b2f527809f8bf7067+merge%3Afalse&per_page=1&page=2>; rel="next", <https://api.github.com/search/commits?sort=author-date&order=asc&q=hash%3A1265747e992ba7d34a469b6b2f527809f8bf7067+merge%3Afalse&per_page=1&page=2>; rel="last"'), ('X-RateLimit-Limit', '30'), ('X-RateLimit-Remaining', '28'), ('X-RateLimit-Reset', '1634792071'), ('X-RateLimit-Used', '2'), ('X-RateLimit-Resource', 'search'), ('Access-Control-Expose-Headers', 'ETag, Link, Location, Retry-After, X-GitHub-OTP, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Used, X-RateLimit-Resource, X-RateLimit-Reset, X-OAuth-Scopes, X-Accepted-OAuth-Scopes, X-Poll-Interval, X-GitHub-Media-Type, Deprecation, Sunset'), ('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*'), ('Strict-Transport-Security', 'max-age=31536000; includeSubdomains; preload'), ('X-Frame-Options', 'deny'), ('X-Content-Type-Options', 'nosniff'), ('X-XSS-Protection', '0'), ('Referrer-Policy', 'origin-when-cross-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin'), ('Content-Security-Policy', "default-src 'none'"), ('Content-Encoding', 'gzip'), ('X-GitHub-Request-Id', 'DB8E:3107:5AE85E:63CFBA:6170F280')]
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Usually, this is perfectly fine, since almost every method will\r\nonly make one request -- where this falls down is when we make another\r\nafter a redirect. Make a copy of the requestHeaders, and sanitize those.\r\n\r\nFixes 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+
diff --git a/tests/Search.py b/tests/Search.py
index f7e2ffe175..aa6c2b2a46 100644
--- a/tests/Search.py
+++ b/tests/Search.py
@@ -195,6 +195,15 @@ def testPaginateSearchCommits(self):
         )
         self.assertEqual(commits.totalCount, 3)
 
+    def testSearchCommits(self):
+        commits = self.g.search_commits(
+            query="hash:1265747e992ba7d34a469b6b2f527809f8bf7067",
+            sort="author-date",
+            order="asc",
+            merge="false",
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(commits.totalCount, 2)
+
     def testSearchTopics(self):
         topics = self.g.search_topics("python", repositories=">950")
         self.assertListKeyBegin(