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This search Finds repositories with…
cat stars:>100 Find cat repositories with greater than 100 stars.
user:defunkt Get all repositories from the user defunkt.
tom location:"San Francisco, CA" Find all tom users in "San Francisco, CA".
join extension:coffee Find all instances of join in code with coffee extension.
NOT cat Excludes all results containing cat.

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This search Finds repositories with…
cat stars:>100 Find cat repositories with greater than 100 stars.
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jquery size:1024..4089 Find jquery repositories between the sizes 1024 and 4089 kB.
gitx fork:true Repository search includes forks of gitx.
gitx fork:only Repository search returns only forks of gitx.

Code search

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This search Finds repositories with…
install repo:charles/privaterepo Find all instances of install in code from the repository charles/privaterepo.
shogun user:heroku Find references to shogun from all public heroku repositories.
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system size:>1000 Find all instances of system in code of file size greater than 1000kbs.
examples path:/docs/ Find all examples in the path /docs/.
replace fork:true Search replace in the source code of forks.

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This search Finds issues…
encoding user:heroku Encoding issues across the Heroku organization.
cat is:open Find cat issues that are open.
strange comments:>42 Issues with more than 42 comments.
hard label:bug Hard issues labeled as a bug.
author:mojombo All issues authored by mojombo.
mentions:tpope All issues mentioning tpope.
assignee:rtomayko All issues assigned to rtomayko.
exception created:>2012-12-31 Created since the beginning of 2013.
exception updated:<2013-01-01 Last updated before 2013.

User search

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This search Finds repositories with…
fullname:"Linus Torvalds" Find users with the full name "Linus Torvalds".
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chris followers:100..200 Find all chris users with followers between 100 and 200.
ryan repos:>10 Find all ryan users with more than 10 repositories.

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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog contains out-of-date information - the current version number, as well as how to upgrade.
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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog is very disorganized; clean it up
6 TODO: This dialog contains out-of-date information
7 -->
8 <pict type='dlog' num='24' top='6' left='6'/>
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Showing the top two matches Last indexed Apr 8, 2021
2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog is very disorganized; clean it up
6 TODO: This dialog contains out-of-date information (the recommendation of a sage in Fort Emergence, and the jobs button, though the latter is likely to be reinstated)
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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog contains out-of-date information
6 -->
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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog has out-of-date information
6 -->
7 <button name='okay' type='regular' top='205' left='401'>OK</button>
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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog contains out-of-date information
6 -->
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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog has out-of-date information in it
6 -->
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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog may contain out-of-date information
6 -->
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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog contains out-of-date information
6 -->
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2 <?xml-stylesheet href="dialog.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
3 <dialog defbtn='okay'>
4 <!--
5 TODO: This dialog contains out-of-date information, such as pricing.
13 <text size='large' top='42' left='150' width='300' height='17'>------ CREDITS ------</text>
14 <!-- TODO: Get a proper right-aligned text setting so that I don't have to use this hack of weird numbers of spaces -->
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