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I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question. Saw quite a few Q&A related to search on GitHub, hence posting here. E.g. Search code inside a Github project
GitHub advanced search allows terms like stars:>100 but the query term is restricted to repository names only. Is it possible to search for a term inside the files (code) & sort by stars? My aim is to see which popular repos are using a particular keyword in their code. It would be very useful if GitHub's advanced search options for Repositories worked for Code also.
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Particularly, GitHub users can star a repository, presumably to manifest interest or satisfaction with an open source project. However, the real and practical meaning of starring a project was never the subject of an in- depth and well-founded empirical investigation.
You can search for a file in a repository using the file finder. To search for a file in multiple repositories on GitHub Enterprise Cloud, use the filename code search qualifier.
It is not possible to sort by stars when searching inside code.
From an e-mail from github.com support:
Code search does not support sorting by number of stars, but I will definitely add your +1 to that suggestion internally! I can't say if or when a change will happen, but your feedback is in the right hands.
You may want to vote for this feature: Add Stars count filter.
The feedback is related to this announcement: Improving GitHub code search
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