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GitHub’s search supports a variety of different operations. Here’s a quick cheat sheet for some of the common searches.

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Basic search

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.

Repository search

Repository search looks through the projects you have access to on GitHub. You can also filter the results:

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.
pugs pushed:>2013-01-28 Pugs repositories pushed to since Jan 28, 2013.
node.js forks:<200 Find all node.js repositories with less than 200 forks.
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

Code search looks through the files hosted on GitHub. You can also filter the results:

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.
join extension:coffee Find all instances of join in code with coffee extension.
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.

Issue search

Issue search looks through issues and pull requests on GitHub. You can also filter the results:

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

User search finds users with an account on GitHub. You can also filter the results:

This search Finds repositories with…
fullname:"Linus Torvalds" Find users with the full name "Linus Torvalds".
tom location:"San Francisco, CA" Find all tom users in "San Francisco, CA".
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.
137 void render(const SundownBuffer& input, SundownBuffer* pOutput)
138 {
139 ::sd_markdown_render(pOutput->pBuff_,
151 return systemError(boost::system::errc::not_enough_memory, location);
152 }
153
154 Error renderMarkdown(const SundownBuffer& inputBuffer,
155 const Extensions& extensions,
C++
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83 bool escape;
84 };
85
86 // render markdown to HTML -- assumes UTF-8 encoding
87 Error markdownToHTML(const FilePath& markdownFile,
89 const HTMLOptions& htmlOptions,
90 const FilePath& htmlFile);
91
92 // render markdown to HTML -- assumes UTF-8 encoding
C++
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34 if (!is.null(editor$mode)) {
35 editor$mode <- scalarChar(editor$mode)
36 }
37
38 if (is.list(editor$markdown)) {
39 if (!is.null(editor$markdown$wrap)) {
40 editor$markdown$wrap <- scalarChar(editor$markdown$wrap)
R
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38 String shinyTerminalErrorMsg(String file);
39
40 /**
41 * Translate "Render Completed".
42 *
43 * @return the translated value
44 */
45 @DefaultMessage("Render Completed")
46 @Key("renderCompletedCaption")
47 String renderCompletedCaption();
Java
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2 shinyTerminalErrorMsg=The Shiny document {0} needs to be stopped before the document can be rendered.
3 renderCompletedCaption=Render Completed
4 renderCompletedMsg=RStudio has finished rendering {0} to {1}.
5 yesLabel=Download File
6 noLabel=OK
INI
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51 for (const Command& command : commands)
52 {
53 commandsJsonArray.push_back(command.asJson());
54 }
55
56 return commandsJsonArray.write();
57 }
58
59 Error renderMarkdown(const std::string& content, std::string* pHTML)
245 pHTML->append(ostr.str());
246 }
247
248 // render the markdown
249 std::string markdownHTML;
250 Error error = renderMarkdown(slide.content(), &markdownHTML);
C++
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2 shinyTerminalErrorMsg=Le document Shiny {0} doit être arrêté avant que le document puisse être rendu.
3 renderCompletedCaption=Rendu terminé
4 renderCompletedMsg=RStudio a terminé le rendu de {0} vers {1}.
5 yesLabel=Télécharger le fichier
6 noLabel=OK
INI
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111 /* render • structure containing one particular render */
112 struct sd_markdown {
113 struct sd_callbacks cb;
114 void *opaque;
1674 static size_t
1675 parse_htmlblock(struct buf *ob, struct sd_markdown *rndr, uint8_t *data, size_t size, int do_render);
C
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485 String rMarkdownTitle();
486
487 /**
488 * Translated "View the R Markdown render log".
489 *
490 * @return translated "View the R Markdown render log"
491 */
492 @DefaultMessage("View the R Markdown render log")
Java
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68 if (event.getDocId() != sentinel_.getId())
69 return;
70
71 // wait up to a second for the R Markdown render to start before we
72 // initiate a render of the notebook
140 // if an R Markdown render is pending, wait for it to start before we ask
141 // the notebook to render; this ensures that in the case where we're
Java
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