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The search bar at the top of each page has been redesigned to help users quickly navigate to team pages, repositories, and projects that were recently visited. If you click…
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Search repositories by license
Now you can look for repositories by their license. Search for a specific license using a query such as license:mit or license:gpl-3.0 or find repositories licensed under a particular license…
Search commit messages
You can now search for commits from either the main search page or within a repository. Quickly discover who removed set -e or find commits that involved refactoring. Check out…
Search wiki pages
You can now search for wiki pages from either the main search page, or within a repository. Quickly discover how to use the exec command of your Redis client, or…
From the OctoTales video series: advancing cancer research through open source
There are no shortage of open source projects making an impact on our world, and we’ve been especially excited to see an increase in collaboration across the healthcare community. A…
Mobile Search
Whether you're reviewing project issues from your phone while traveling for business, or trying to find a specific Node.js repository to show a friend at lunch, we want the GitHub.com…
New GitHub Issues functionality for smarter searching, filtering and managing
We've rebuilt GitHub Issues to be smarter: search smarter, filter smarter, and manage your issues and pull requests smarter. If you want to see it in action, check out Bootstrap's…
Code Search API
Humans have enjoyed our :sparkles: new code search for a while, and today we're ready to share that joy with the machines. :mag: With the new code search API, we've…
Repository Search on all Repositories
1/9/2018: Whoops! This post is out of date. For more information on searching repositories on GitHub, check out our documentation. Today we are allowing you to search your own public…
A smarter, more complete-y search bar
We often like to think of text as a UI at GitHub. We use text to navigate our text editors, we use keyboard shortcuts to delete our email, and we…
Global Issue Search
There are a more than a million open issues to be found across all public repositories hosted on GitHub right now. Finding a specific issue can be a tedious process…
Recent Code Search Outages
Last week, between Thursday, January 24 and Friday, January 25 we experienced a critical outage surrounding our newly-launched Code Search service. As always, we strive to provide detailed, transparent post-mortems…
Sorting through Search Results
Last week, we were proud to introduce our new Code Search and improved repository and user search. Today, when you perform a search that has more than one page of…
A Whole New Code Search
Finding great code on GitHub just got a whole lot easier. Today we're releasing several big improvements to code search. New Technology First, we are unveiling our new search infrastructure…
Search Syntax Improvements
Today we are announcing simplified syntax for adding comparison and range criteria to searches. Previously we relied on Solr-style syntax, so searching for items with more than 10 stars would…
Searching and Filtering Stars
You can already see all the repositories you’ve starred at github.com/stars, but today your Stars page just got a whole lot better. Search Looking for a repository you starred? Search…
Improved Gist Search
One of my New Year's resolutions for this year is to make GitHub search awesome. Today I'm happy to announce that Phase One of this project is complete, in the…
Welcome our new search hardware
The past few months I've been having this recurring dream where I kept seeing this image float around my room: If you've been a veteran to our search, you'll know…
Repo Search Autocomplete
Text in our global search bar now auto-completes repositories you own or are watching. Along with our dashboard tweaks this should make it easier to navigate the site. Enjoy! (Protip:…
New and Improved Search
We hit two birds with one deploy today. First, some of you may have seen a very well reasoned constructive criticism of our header user block content on the 37Signals…
Google Code Search Crawls GitHub
Google Code Search now supports GitHub. From the announcement: For Git, we now crawl repositories hosted by several public git hosting sites including GitHub and repo.or.cz. In addition to that,…