Skip to content
Advanced search
Cheat sheet

Search cheat sheet

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

For more information, visit our search help section.

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.

Is there an existing issue for this? - [X] I have searched the existing issues - [X] I have read the guide to filing a bug Steps to reproduce At https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/dart-ui/PlatformDispatcher/instance.html ...

d: api docs documentation easy fix engine
Mayb3Nots opened May 4, 2023
1 comment

Revised entry is already in the Corp Guide. Just need to update the Tech Writing guide to match.

easy fix enhancement P3
daobrien opened Apr 27, 2023

If you re having issues where clicks are only recognized when they re directly on text or other content, set a background for the element, and this should be fixed.

easy fix
ErikBoesen opened Apr 25, 2023

Summary https://bashrc.zod.tf still leads to gist script. potentially also add a deb11_base.sh alias? Solution redirect it with CloudFlare you dingus

bug easy fix TODO
zudsniper opened Apr 16, 2023

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I had a location which did not have a TMY file nearby (Julian, CA Climate Zone 14 ). The closest TMY files (Ramona or Thermal) are both in ...

easy fix enhancement
praftery opened Apr 16, 2023
2 comments

It likely doesn t matter, but the DisplayList should only contain DlColor objects yet the ToColor converter in Impeller takes an SkColor as an argument. It turns out these two types can be implicitly converted ...

easy fix engine impeller P4
flar opened Apr 8, 2023

The style guide currently uses system-wide as an adjective. This has been through the WN group, compared to AP and IBM, and revised guidance is to always use the one-word form.

easy fix enhancement P2
daobrien opened Apr 6, 2023

AutoKey is a Xorg application and will not function in a Wayland session. Do you use Xorg (X11) or Wayland? Xorg Has this issue already been reported? - [X] I have searched through the existing issues. ...

easy fix enhancement help-wanted user interface
Elliria opened Mar 29, 2023
2 comments

On https://preview.hfopt.jodavaho.io/, the button at the bottom right does not make it clear that it can also be used to create an account (as opposed to logging in to an existing one). #ux

Easy Fix enhancement
federico3 opened Mar 27, 2023
1 comment

Feature description When writing plugins, and loading layers with that plugin, I find myself sometimes creating custom_properties of a layer: https://qgis.org/pyqgis/master/core/QgsMapLayer.html#qgis.core.QgsMapLayer.setCustomProperty ...

Easy fix Feature Request Good First Issue
rduivenvoorde opened Mar 15, 2023
1 comment