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