git-bug/doc/queries.md

Searching bugs

You can search bugs using a micro query language for both filtering and sorting. A query could look like this:

status:open sort:edit

A few tips:

• queries are case insensitive.
• you can combine as many qualifiers as you want.
• you can use double quotes for multi-word search terms. For example, author:"René Descartes" searches for bugs opened by René Descartes, whereas author:René Descartes will search for bug with René as the author and containing Descartes in a text.
• instead of a complete ID, you can use any prefix length, as long as there is no ambiguity. For example participant=9ed1a.

Filtering

Filtering by status

You can filter bugs based on their status.

Qualifier	Example
status:open	status:open matches open bugs
status:closed	status:closed matches closed bugs

Filtering by author

You can filter based on the person who opened the bug.

Qualifier	Example
author:QUERY	author:descartes matches bugs opened by René Descartes or Robert Descartes
	author:"rené descartes" matches bugs opened by René Descartes

Filtering by participant

You can filter based on the person who participated in any activity related to the bug (opened bug or added a comment).

Qualifier	Example
participant:QUERY	participant:descartes matches bugs opened or commented by René Descartes or Robert Descartes
	participant:"rené descartes" matches bugs opened or commented by René Descartes

Filtering by actor

You can filter based on the person who interacted with the bug.

Qualifier	Example
actor:QUERY	actor:descartes matches bugs edited by René Descartes or Robert Descartes
	actor:"rené descartes" matches bugs edited by René Descartes

NOTE: interaction with bugs include: opening the bug, adding comments, adding/removing labels etc...

Filtering by label

You can filter based on the bug's label.

Qualifier	Example
label:LABEL	label:prod matches bugs with the label prod
	label:"Good first issue" matches bugs with the label Good first issue

Filtering by title

You can filter based on the bug's title.

Qualifier	Example
title:TITLE	title:Critical matches bugs with a title containing Critical
	title:"Typo in string" matches bugs with a title containing Typo in string

Filtering by missing feature

You can filter bugs based on the absence of something.

Qualifier	Example
no:label	no:label matches bugs with no labels

Sorting

You can sort results by adding a sort: qualifier to your query. “Descending” means most recent time or largest ID first, whereas “Ascending” means oldest time or smallest ID first.

Note: to deal with differently-set clocks on distributed computers, git-bug uses a logical clock internally rather than timestamps to order bug changes over time. That means that the timestamps recorded might not match the returned ordering. More on that in the documentation

Sort by Id

Qualifier	Example
sort:id-desc	sort:id-desc will sort bugs by their descending Ids
sort:id or sort:id-asc	sort:id will sort bugs by their ascending Ids

Sort by Creation time

You can sort bugs by their creation time.

Qualifier	Example
sort:creation or sort:creation-desc	sort:creation will sort bugs by their descending creation time
sort:creation-asc	sort:creation-asc will sort bugs by their ascending creation time

Sort by Edit time

You can sort bugs by their edit time.

Qualifier	Example
sort:edit or sort:edit-desc	sort:edit will sort bugs by their descending last edition time
sort:edit-asc	sort:edit-asc will sort bugs by their ascending last edition time