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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.

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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

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install repo:charles/privaterepo Find all instances of install in code from the repository charles/privaterepo.
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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.

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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

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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.
chiabs opened Oct 19, 2020
AY2021S1-CS2103T-W15-3:master ← chiabs:Change_tag_to_allergy

change1

StanMus opened Oct 19, 2020
main ← change1
jmtes opened Oct 19, 2020
main ← change-task-background

Fixed formatting and changed links to use relative paths.

charlotte-zhuang opened Oct 19, 2020
main ← changes

updated read.txt

Bina-Batool opened Oct 18, 2020
octocat:change-the-title ← Bina-Batool:change-the-title
wildcard opened Oct 18, 2020
master ← changes
c0a3bd opened Oct 18, 2020
barryclark:master ← c0a3bd:changes_HHC

Types of changes - [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue) - [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality) - [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause ...

Srivaidyan opened Oct 18, 2020
1 comment
h5bp:master ← Srivaidyan:change-color
arukayies opened Oct 18, 2020
1 comment
teamQA-github:main ← arukayies:change_GuiteName

- rename file

Eli415 opened Oct 18, 2020
master ← change-filename
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