Ability to search based on repository topic or property?

[jmaixl]

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I am trying to balance the number of organizations with the ability to search certain repositories based on some grouping.
Bitbucket has this feature where you can group repositories into projects, and search for code in a project. This is similar to GitHub's topics or repository properties, but afaik, code search does not support a topic or property filter. Or even searching in repositories owned by a team.

Is this something that can be done or is planned?

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[adhintz]

You can search for which repos have a topic using topic:foo

However you cannot search for code that lives within repos that have a topic. You'll get the warning message
The topic qualifier is not supported when searching code. Try searching for repositories instead?

The best I've been able to do is to use the API to pull down a list of repos with the topic. Then for each of those repos, or a batch of them, code search with the repo: qualifier.

[LiteBrite82]

@jmaixl You can create Lists to group repositories in any fashion you like. Though I dont think you can then do a batch code search on every repo in the list.

[gabriel-kato]

This would be very useful to search code just from my team which groups repositories by topics. We also have a naming convention, but it seems that search doesn't support wildcards either https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/47292