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Quick Reference for Github Search Syntax

Search Syntax

Operators
Notes
 
<, <=, >, >=
Value compar­isons
 
n..*, *..n, n..n
Range compar­isons
 
NOT QUALIFIER

-QUALIFIER
Exclude the qualifier
"­dou­ble­-qu­ote­s"
Surrounds white-­space phrases
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)

Links

  

Limit Results (General)

Prefix
Qualifier
 
is:, type:
 
pr, issue, public, private
 
in:
 
title, body, comments, name, descri­ption, readme
 
user:, org:
 
NAME, @me
 
repo:
 
USER/REPO
 
author:
 
USER, app/name, @me
 
language:
 
LANG
 
no:
 
label, milestone, assignee, project
 
size:
size of target matches range qualifier
 
followers:

forks:

stars:

topics:

target matches range qualifier
 
topic:
matches targets which have the 
topic

Code Search

Qualifier
Searches files...
 
path:DIRECTORY
with 
DIRECTORY
in the file path
 
language:LANGUAGE
which are of 
LANGUAGE
, see languages
 
size:n
which match the 
n
range qualifier
 
filename:FILENAME
which match 
FILENAME
 
extension:EXTENSION
which match 
EXTENSION
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
       
 

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  • Published: 15th August, 2021

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