query-language.md

When performing a search (e.g. listing issues), you can use different qualifiers to narrow the results. This page provides an overview of these filters, and how to use them.

Overview
Filtering
Sorting

Overview

The query filters in git-bug have a familiar look and feel:

status:open sort:edit

Key things to know

All queries are case insensitive
You can combine as many qualifiers as you want
If you have a space in your qualifier, be sure to wrap it in double quotes. As an example, author:"René Descartes" would filter for issues opened by René Descartes, whereas author:René Descartes filter for René as the author and return issues that contain Descartes somewhere in the title, description, or comments.
Instead of a complete ID, you can use any prefix length, as long as it is long enough to be unique (similar to git commit hashes). For example, participant=9ed1a would match against participants with an ID of 9ed1af428... and 9ed1ae24a...

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] Interactions with issues include opening the bug, adding comments, adding or 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. To learn more, we encourage you to read about why time is unreliable.

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

Search filters