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Searching in GitHub

Searching code

someCodePiece in:file searches for code in any file in the repository

filename: something.ts searches for filenames in the repository

something in:path searches in file path

You can search by more criteria like size:>10000, language:LANGUAGE, extension:TS or by user:USERNAME, org:ORGNAME, repo:USERNAME/REPOSITORY

You can search almost anything, for example commits, topics, repositories, issues, PRs, discussions, users, packages, wikis, forks.

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I am Mathias, born 40 years ago in Heidelberg, Germany. Today I am living in Munich and Stockholm. I am a passionate IT freelancer with more than 16 years experience in programming, especially in developing web based applications for companies that range from small startups to the big players out there. I am founder of bosy.com, creator of the security service platform BosyProtect© and initiator of several other software projects.