Allison details the rollout of the ‘enterprise:’ qualifier in GitHub code search, a new feature making it easier for GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers to search codes across multiple organizations within their enterprise.

GitHub Introduces ‘enterprise:’ Qualifier for Enhanced Code Search

GitHub has rolled out a new enterprise: qualifier in its code search functionality, aimed at simplifying how users search across multiple organizations within a GitHub enterprise. This addition addresses previous challenges where users needed to manually combine several org: qualifiers using boolean operators, a time-consuming process especially for enterprises managing hundreds or thousands of organizations.

How the ‘enterprise:’ qualifier works

  • Add the enterprise: qualifier to your GitHub code search queries to automatically include all organizations within your enterprise.
  • This streamlines searches that, until now, required complex combinations of multiple org: qualifiers.

See the official documentation for an example.

  • The new qualifier integrates with existing GitHub code search qualifiers, following their syntax and limitations.
  • This functionality is generally available for all GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers.

Key points

  • Simplifies enterprise-wide code search: No need to manually list all organizations for broad queries.
  • Subject to existing search limitations: Behaves as other code search qualifiers do, ensuring consistent usage and expected results.

For more details and examples, consult the GitHub documentation.

Author: Allison

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