Finding Phrases Among Any Open Issue in a Given Repository

[l-koral]

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I was looking through a rulebook Github, searching for a certain comment unrelated to a while issue, but could not find it. With that information I thought a new issue was merited. However, I could not find the comment, albeit short in length, as users can only search for created issues.
I propose that the search bar used for finding an issue in each different Github page has options for any phrases from any open issue in that repository, phrases that a certain person wrote, in addition to finding an open issue (which is already an option). This would make for easier use of Github when trying to find specific information.

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[shotorouu]

Hey! Thanks for bringing this up.

It sounds like you're looking for a way to search specifically through comments across issues and discussions rather than just searching issue titles/descriptions or opening full threads manually.

GitHub actually supports powerful search qualifiers in the search bar right now! Here are a few existing search techniques that might solve what you're trying to do:

Search comments within a repository:
You can use the type:issue qualifier in the main GitHub search bar along with your target phrase to search all issue and PR body text and comments within a specific repository.

repo:owner/repository "exact phrase here" is:open

Filter by specific author/commenter:
If you know who wrote the comment or phrase, you can filter directly using commenter:username or author:username:

repo:owner/repository commenter:username "phrase"

In-page issue list search vs. global repo search:
The search bar on the /issues tab mainly filters issue titles, labels, and state. If you switch to the global search bar at the top of GitHub (or press / on your keyboard) while inside the repository, it will query full comment contents across all issues and pull requests.