queries.md

Searching bugs

You can search bugs using a micro query language for both filtering and sorting. A query could look like this:

status:open sort:edit

A few tips:

• queries are case insensitive.
• you can combine as many qualifiers as you want.
• you can use double quotes for multi-word search terms. For example, author:"René Descartes" searches for bugs opened by René Descartes, whereas author:René Descartes will throw an error since full-text search is not yet supported.

Filtering

Filtering by status

You can filter bugs based on their status.

Qualifier	Example
status:open	status:open matches open bugs
status:closed	status:closed matches closed bugs

Filtering by author

You can filter based on the person who opened the bug.

Qualifier	Example
author:QUERY	author:descartes matches bugs opened by René Descartes or Robert Descartes
	author:"rené descartes" matches bugs opened by René Descartes

Filtering by label

You can filter based on the bug's label.

Qualifier	Example
label:LABEL	label:prod matches bugs with the label prod
	label:"Good first issue" matches bugs with the label Good first issue

Filtering by missing feature

You can filter bugs based on the absence of something.

Qualifier	Example
no:label	no:label matches bugs with no labels

Sorting

You can sort results by adding a sort: qualifier to your query. “Descending” means most recent time or largest ID first, whereas “Ascending” means oldest time or smallest ID first.

Note: to deal with differently-set clocks on distributed computers, git-bug uses a logical clock internally rather than timestamps to order bug changes over time. That means that the timestamps recorded might not match the returned ordering. More on that in the documentation

Sort by Id

Qualifier	Example
sort:id-desc	sor:id-desc will sort bugs by their descending Ids
sort:id or sort:id-asc	sor:id will sort bugs by their ascending Ids

Sort by Creation time

You can sort bugs by their creation time.

Qualifier	Example
sort:creation or sort:creation-desc	sor:creation will sort bugs by their descending creation time
sort:creation-asc	sor:creation-asc will sort bugs by their ascending creation time

Sort by Edit time

You can sort bugs by their edit time.

Qualifier	Example
sort:edit or sort:edit-desc	sor:edit will sort bugs by their descending last edition time
sort:edit-asc	sor:edit-asc will sort bugs by their ascending last edition time