Sorting search results - GitHub Docs (original) (raw)

You can sort GitHub search results using the Sort menu, or by adding a sort qualifier to your query.

Note

Sorting search results is not supported for GitHub code search. For more information on code search, see About GitHub Code Search.

Use the Sort dropdown menu to sort results by relevance, number of stars, number of forks, and how recently the items were updated.

To sort by interactions, reactions, comments, created date, relevance, author date, committer date, or how recently the items were updated, you can add a sort qualifier to your search query.

The sort:comments qualifier sorts by the number of comments.

Sort by created date

The sort:created qualifier sorts by the date when the items were created.

Sort by relevance

The sort:relevance qualifier sorts by search relevance.

Sort by interactions

The sort:interactions qualifier sorts by the highest combined number of reactions and comments.

Sort by reactions

The sort:reactions qualifier sorts by the number or type of reactions.

The sort:author-date qualifier sorts by descending or ascending author date.

Sort by committer date

The sort:committer-date qualifier sorts by descending or ascending committer date.

Sort by updated date

The sort:updated qualifier sorts by how recently the items were updated.

Further reading

• About searching on GitHub
• Filtering and searching issues and pull requests