git-bug/doc/queries.md
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# 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](model.md#you-cant-rely-on-the-time-provided-by-other-people-their-clock-might-by-off-for-anything-other-than-just-display)
### 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 |