This cheat sheet is meant to be easy to skim and find what you're looking for. If you want more detailed descriptions and examples, please refer to GitHub's official documentation. Terms written in ALL CAPS are custom variables that you will need to type yourself. Syntax Matches Na number >Ngreater than N >=Ngreater than or equal to N <Nless than N <=Nless than or equal to N N..*the same as >=N *..Nthe same as <=N N1..N2between N1 and N2 YYYY-MM-DDa date >YYYY-MM-DDlater than YYYY-MM-DD >=YYYY-MM-DDlater than or on YYYY-MM-DD <YYYY-MM-DDearlier than YYYY-MM-DD <=YYYY-MM-DDearlier than or on YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD..YYYY-MM-DDbetween YYYY-MM-DD and YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DD..*the same as >YYYY-MM-DD *..YYYY-MM-DDthe same as <YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:MMDate and time along with UTC offset (timezones). Can be used in place of YYYY-MM-DD YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZsame as YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+00:00 NOT QUERYyou can pre-pend NOT to a QUERY to exclude it from results -QUALIFIERa - preceding any qualifier will exclude it from results @mecan be used in place of a USERNAME to match your own account
These qualifiers apply to both issues and PRs. If you want to search only issues or only PRs, use type:issue or type:pr.
Qualifier Matches type:issueonly issues is:issueSame as type:issue type:pronly PRs is:prSame as type:pr state:openopen issues and PRs is:openSame as state:open state:closedclosed issues and PRs is:closedSame as state:closed QUERY in:titletitles containing the specified QUERY QUERY in:bodybodies containing the specified QUERY QUERY in:commentscomments containing the specified QUERY is:publicin public repos is:privatein private repos author:USERNAMEcreated by USERNAME author:app/USERNAMEcreated by an "integration account" USERNAME assignee:USERNAMEassigned to USERNAME mentions:USERNAMEmentions @USERNAME team:ORGNAME/TEAMNAMEmentions @ORGNAME/TEAMNAME commenter:USERNAMEcontaining comment from USERNAME involves:USERNAMEwhere USERNAME is the author, assignee, a commenter, or they are mentioned label:LABELhas the specified LABEL milestone:MILESTONEin the specified milestone project:PROJECT_BOARDin the project project:REPOSITORY/PROJECT_BOARDin the project in the repo language:LANGUAGEin repos using LANGUAGE (programming language) comments:Nhas N comments (e.g. >100) interactions:Nhas N interactions (e.g. >1200) reactions:Nhas N reactions (e.g. <500) created:YYYY-MM-DDcreated during specified date (e.g <2022-02-02) updated:YYYY-MM-DDupdated during specified date (e.g >2022-02-02) closed:YYYY-MM-DDclosed during specified date (e.g <=2022-02-02) archived:truein a repo that has been archived archived:falsenot in a repo that has been archived is:lockedconversation is locked is:unlockedconversation is not locked no:labelhas no labels no:milestonehas no milestone no:assigneehas no assignee no:projecthas no project
Qualifier Matches reason:completeclosed as "completed" reason:"not planned"closed as "not planned" linked:pris linked to a PR -linked:pr is not linked to a PR
Qualifier Matches linked:issueis linked to an issue -linked:issueis not linked to an issue status:pendinghas pending status status:successhas success status status:failurehas failure status SHAPR with commit SHA that starts with entered search term head:HEAD_BRANCHopened from branch names beginning with HEAD_BRANCH base:BASE_BRANCHbeing merged into BASE_BRANCH draft:truedraft PRs draft:falsenon-draft PRs (available to be reviewed) review:nonehas not been reviewed review:requiredrequires a review before it can be merged review:approvedhas been approved by a reviewer review:changes_requesteda reviewer has requested changed before merging reviewed-by:USERNAMEhas been reviewed by USERNAME review-requested:USERNAMEhas a request for USERNAME to review user-review-requested:@meyou have been asked to review team-review-requested:TEAMNAMETEAMNAME has been asked to review merged:YYYY-MM-DDmerged during specified date (e.g >=2022-02-02) is:mergedhas been merged is:unmergedhas not been merged
Qualifier Matches QUERY in:fileQUERY appears in the file contents QUERY in:pathQUERY appears in the file path user:USERNAMEcommitted by USERNAME org:ORGNAMEowned by ORGNAME repo:USERNAME/REPOSITORYis in the repo named USERNAME/REPOSITORY path:/located at the root level of a repo path:DIRECTORYlocated within DIRECTORY or any of it's subdirectories language:LANGUAGEwritten in the programming language LANGUAGE size:Nfile size matches N in bytes (e.g. >10000) filename:FILENAMEfile is named FILENAME extension:EXTENSIONhas the file extension EXTENSION
Qualifier Matches QUERY in:namehas QUERY in the repo name QUERY in:descriptionhas QUERY in the repo description QUERY in:topicsis labeled with QUERY as a topic. QUERY in:readmehas QUERY in the README file repo:OWNER/NAMEname is OWNER/NAME user:USERNAMErepos owned by USERNAME org:ORGNAMErepos owned by ORGNAME size:Nrepos that are size N kilobytes in size (e.g. >1000) followers:Nrepo with N followers forks:Nhas N forks stars:Nhas N stars created:YYYY-MM-DDcreated on YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. <2021-03-02) pushed:YYYY-MM-DDhas commit pushed on YYYY-MM-DD (e.g. >2022-01-01) language:LANGUAGEwritten in the programming language of LANGUAGE topic:TOPIChas a topic of TOPIC topics:Nhas N topics license:LICENSE_KEYWORDis licensed under LICENSE_KEYWORD (<a href="https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/licensing-a-repository#searching-github-by-license-type" rel="noopener" target="_blank">list of license keywords</a>) is:publicis public is:privateis private mirror:truerepos that are mirrors mirror:falserepos that are not mirrors archived:trueis archived archived:falseis not archived good-first-issues:>nhas N or more issues labeled good-first-issue help-wanted-issues:>nhas N or more issues labelled help-wanted is:sponsorablerepo owners have a <a href="https://github.com/sponsors" rel="noopener" target="_blank">GitHub Sponsors profile</a> has:funding-filehas a <a href="https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/displaying-a-sponsor-button-in-your-repository#about-funding-files" rel="noopener" target="_blank">FUNDING.yml file</a>
Qualifier Matches type:useronly personal accounts type:orgonly organizations user:USERNAMEuser with the username USERNAME org:ORGNAMEorganization with the name ORGNAME QUERY in:loginusers with the QUERY in their username QUERY in:nameusers whose real name contains QUERY fullname:FIRSTNAME LASTNAMEuser with the full name FIRSTNAME LASTNAME QUERY in:emailusers with QUERY in their email. repos:Nusers with N repositories (e.g. >100) location:LOCATIONusers that specified LOCATION as their location in their profile language:LANGUAGEusers with a majority of their repos written in LANGUAGE created:YYYY-MM-DDusers that joined on YYYY-MM-DD followers:Nusers with N followers is:sponsorableusers and organizations who have a <a href="https://github.com/sponsors" rel="noopener" target="_blank">GitHub Sponsors profile</a>
Qualifier Matches author:USERNAMEcommits authored by USERNAME committer:USERNAMEcommitted by USERNAME author-name:NAMEcommits with NAME in the author name committer-name:NAMEcommits with NAME in the committer name. author-email:EMAILauthored by EMAIL committer-email:EMAILcommitted by EMAIL author-date:YYYY-MM-DDcommits authored on YYYY-MM-DD committer-date:YYYY-MM-DDcommits committed on YYYY-MM-DD merge:truemerge commits merge:falsenon-merge commits hash:HASHcommits with the hash of HASH parent:HASHchildren of commits with the hash of HASH tree:HASHcommits that refer to the tree hash of HASH. user:USERNAMEcommits in repositories owned by USERNAME org:ORGNAMEcommits in repositories owned by ORGNAME repo:USERNAME/REPOcommits in the repository USERNAME/REPO is:publiccommits to public repositories is:privatecommits to private repositories
Qualifier Matches QUERY in:titlediscussions with QUERY in the title QUERY in:bodydiscussions with QUERY in the body QUERY in:commentsdiscussions with QUERY in the comments user:USERNAMEin repos owned by USERNAME org:ORGNAMEdiscussions in repos owned by ORGNAME repo:USERNAME/REPOSITORYdiscussions in the USERNAME/REPOSITORY repo is:publicin public repos is:privatein private repos author:USERNAMEdiscussions created by USERNAME commenter:USERNAMEdiscussons commented on by USERNAME involves:USERNAMEdiscussions involving USERNAME comments:Ndiscussions with N comments created:YYYY-MM-DDdiscussions created on YYYY-MM-DD updated:YYYY-MM-DDdiscussions updated on YYYY-MM-DD
Qualifier Matches user:USERNAMEwiki in repos owned by USERNAME org:ORGNAMEin repos owned by ORGNAME repo:USERNAME/REPOSITORYwiki pages in the USERNAME/REPOSITORY repo QUERY in:titlewiki pages with titles containing QUERY QUERY in:bodywiki pages with body text containing QUERY updated:YYYY-MM-DDwikis updated on YYYY-MM-DD
Qualifier Matches QUERY fork:trueRepos and forks that contain QUERY QUERY fork:onlyonly forks that contain QUERY
Qualifier Matches is:curatedtopics that are curated is:featuredtopics that are featured on <a href="https://github.com/topics/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/topics/ </a> is:not-curatedtopics that are not curated is:not-featuredtopics that are not featured on <a href="https://github.com/topics/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">https://github.com/topics/ </a> repositories:Ntopics that have N repos created:YYYY-MM-DDtopics created on YYYY-MM-DD
Qualifier Matches user:USERNAMEpackages owned USERNAME org:ORGNAMEpackages owned by ORGNAME is:publicpublic packages is:privateprivate packages
