Github Search Syntax Cheat Sheet by cpriest

All query inputs are ANDed together, so "­cats dogs" as the search input would match anywhere in the title, body or comment which had both "­cat­s" AND "­dog­s" in the match.

Dates follow ISO8601 such as (year-­mon­th-day)

Exam­ples
octocat filena­me:­readme path:/ matches readme files with the word octo­cat that are located at the root level of a reposi­tory.
form path:c­gi-bin langua­ge:­perl matches Perl files with the word form in a cgi-bin direct­ory, or in any of its subd­ire­cto­ries
Hello langua­ge:­mar­kdown -filen­ame­:re­adme matches Mark­down files with the word Hello exclu­ding files named readme