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GitHub has a search system, building on elastic search that has many advanced features like searching for repositories or users. Using Google, I can search GitHub for alternatives. The search syntax of GitHub however only covers negation operator.
How do I use other logic operators in GitHub's search?
Is there perhaps a feature in elastic search that can be exploited for filtering or combining Boolean queries?
GitHub's built in search covers the and, not, and or operators, as well as various other comparisons. GitHub's general guidelines on searching are located here: https://help.github.com/articles/searching-github/
With its search syntax described here: https://help.github.com/articles/search-syntax/
AND or OR, and they don't appear to work for me.
– Christopher
Sep 22 '17 at 22:00
The default search works as though there is an implied AND operator between each search key-value pair:
is:pr is:open author:monishdeb
If you specify more than one key-value pair for a key, it uses the last one, and suppresses earlier ones in the query when results are presented.
The advanced search works as though there is an implied OR operator between each search key-value pair:
author:monishdeb author:pradpnayak repo:civicrm/civicrm-core
There is no way to combine AND and OR operators that I have found. So I don't think it is possible to find open PRs from any of several authors for a single repo.
The NOT operator can be used to exclude strings: https://help.github.com/articles/understanding-the-search-syntax/
repo:
– Josh Dzielak
Mar 10 '19 at 13:51
ORin queries. There's an issue about it: github.com/isaacs/github/issues/660 – Jerry Green Dec 27 '19 at 22:43