I'm new to Github and just want to browse through repos to find interesting ones.
I want, say, all ruby repos with more than 100 followers. I go to advanced search and try "followers:100" and get only repos with EXACTLY 100 followers (4 at the moment).
That differs from what i expect to be default behavior - find repos with 100 or more followers (more like Stackoverflow search works).
I am quite frustrated, because I can't get what is expected to be basic search functionality from a very popular site, and that makes me think that I'm obviously not understanding something very simple (because I think it is not possible for Github not to have such functions).
So is there a way for me to get the desired result?
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Update January 2013 (source: "A whole new code search")
(intervals are supported: followers:100..150)
Original answer (April 2011)
followers:[100 TO *] should do what you want: see your query with 100 or more followers.
(Note: the "TO" needs to be in uppercase)
(Source: New and Improved Search)
For example, we can search:
- for people with a username fuzzily similar to ‘
chacon’- who use
Rubyas their primary language,- have at least 5 repos and
- at least one follower:
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VonC
I saw your question on GitHub support (support.github.com/discussions/site/…): maybe they will confirm my own answer here.
bizzz
Thank you very much! I'll add a link there.
VonC
@SiweiShen: mainly, I learn from the Git and GitHub other gurus on Stack Overflow (stackoverflow.com/tags/github/topusers, and stackoverflow.com/tags/git/topusers)
You might also like the Hubscovery application. A simple search interface for Github.
