Search on GitHub documentation

You can search, navigate and understand code across GitHub with code search.

Our integrated search covers the many repositories, users, and lines of code on GitHub.

You can search for a file in a repository using the file finder. To search for a file in multiple repositories on GitHub, use the path code search qualifier.

You only need to use the legacy code search syntax if you are using the code search API.

You can search for commits on GitHub and narrow the results using these commit search qualifiers in any combination.

You can search for discussions on GitHub and narrow the results using search qualifiers.

You can search for packages on GitHub and narrow the results using search qualifiers.

You can search for repositories on GitHub and narrow the results using these repository search qualifiers in any combination.

You can search for gists on GitHub and narrow the results using search qualifiers.