Most basic searches can be viewed by clicking on a link along the top menu bar. The link will prefill the search box with a common search query, execute it, and present the results. If exactly one change matches the search, the change will be presented instead of a list.
Similar to many popular search engines on the web, just enter some text and let Gerrit figure out the meaning:
Operators act as restrictions on the search. As more operators are added to the same query string, they further restrict the returned results. Search can also be performed by typing only a text with no operator, which will match against a variety of fields.
age:‘AGE’
Amount of time that has expired since the change was last updated with a review comment or new patch set. The age must be specified to include a unit suffix, for example age:2d:
s, sec, second, seconds
m, min, minute, minutes
h, hr, hour, hours
d, day, days
w, week, weeks (1 week is treated as 7 days)
mon, month, months (1 month is treated as 30 days)
y, year, years (1 year is treated as 365 days)
assignee:‘USER’
Changes assigned to the given user.
before:‘TIME’/until:‘TIME’
Changes modified before the given TIME, inclusive. Must be in the format 2006-01-02[ 15:04:05[.890][ -0700]]; omitting the time defaults to 00:00:00 and omitting the timezone defaults to UTC.
after:‘TIME’/since:‘TIME’
Changes modified after the given TIME, inclusive. Must be in the format 2006-01-02[ 15:04:05[.890][ -0700]]; omitting the time defaults to 00:00:00 and omitting the timezone defaults to UTC.
change:‘ID’
Either a legacy numerical ID such as 15183, or a newer style Change-Id that was scraped out of the commit message.
conflicts:‘ID’
Changes that conflict with change ID. Change ID can be specified as a legacy numerical ID such as 15183, or a newer style Change-Id that was scraped out of the commit message.
destination:‘NAME’
Changes which match the current user’s destination named NAME. (see Named Destinations).
owner:‘USER’, o:‘USER’
Changes originally submitted by USER. The special case of owner:self will find changes owned by the caller.
ownerin:‘GROUP’
Changes originally submitted by a user in GROUP.
query:‘NAME’
Changes which match the current user’s query named NAME (see Named Queries).
reviewer:‘USER’, r:‘USER’
Changes that have been, or need to be, reviewed by USER. The special case of reviewer:self will find changes where the caller has been added as a reviewer.
cc:‘USER’
Changes that have the given user CC’ed on them. The special case of cc:self will find changes where the caller has been CC’ed.
revertof:‘ID’
Changes that revert the change specified by the numeric ID.
reviewerin:‘GROUP’
Changes that have been, or need to be, reviewed by a user in GROUP.
commit:‘SHA1’
Changes where SHA1 is one of the patch sets of the change.
project:‘PROJECT’, p:‘PROJECT’
Changes occurring in PROJECT. If PROJECT starts with ^ it matches project names by regular expression. The dk.brics.automaton library is used for evaluation of such patterns.
projects:‘PREFIX’
Changes occurring in projects starting with PREFIX.
parentproject:‘PROJECT’
Changes occurring in PROJECT or in one of the child projects of PROJECT.
branch:‘BRANCH’
Changes for BRANCH. The branch name is either the short name shown in the web interface or the full name of the destination branch with the traditional refs/heads/ prefix.
If BRANCH starts with ^ it matches branch names by regular expression patterns. The dk.brics.automaton library is used for evaluation of such patterns.
intopic:‘TOPIC’
Changes whose designated topic contains TOPIC, using a full-text search.
If TOPIC starts with ^ it matches topic names by regular expression patterns. The dk.brics.automaton library is used for evaluation of such patterns.
topic:‘TOPIC’
Changes whose designated topic matches TOPIC exactly. This is often combined with branch: and project: operators to select all related changes in a series.
ref:‘REF’
Changes where the destination branch is exactly the given REF
name. Since REF is absolute from the top of the repository it must start with refs/.
If REF starts with ^ it matches reference names by regular expression patterns. The dk.brics.automaton library is used for evaluation of such patterns.
tr:‘ID’, bug:‘ID’
Search for changes whose commit message contains ID and matches one or more of the trackingid sections in the server’s configuration file. This is typically used to search for changes that fix a bug or defect by the issue tracking system’s issue identifier.
label:‘VALUE’
Matches changes where the approval score VALUE has been set during a review. See labels below for more detail on the format of the argument.
message:‘MESSAGE’
Changes that match MESSAGE arbitrary string in the commit message body.
comment:‘TEXT’
Changes that match TEXT string in any comment left by a reviewer.
path:‘PATH’
Matches any change touching file at PATH. By default exact path matching is used, but regular expressions can be enabled by starting with ^. For example, to match all XML files use file:^.*\.xml$. The dk.brics.automaton library is used for the evaluation of such patterns.
The ^ required at the beginning of the regular expression not only denotes a regular expression, but it also has the usual meaning of anchoring the match to the start of the string. To match all Java files, use file:^.*\.java.
The entire regular expression pattern, including the ^ character, should be double quoted when using more complex construction (like ones using a bracket expression). For example, to match all XML files named like name1.xml, name2.xml, and name3.xml use file:"^name[1-3].xml".
file:‘NAME’, f:‘NAME’
Matches any change touching a file containing the path component NAME. For example a file:src will match changes that modify files named gerrit-server/src/main/java/Foo.java. Name matching is exact match, file:Foo.java finds any change touching a file named exactly Foo.java and does not match AbstractFoo.java.
Regular expression matching can be enabled by starting the string with ^. In this mode file: is an alias of path: (see above).
star:‘LABEL’
Matches any change that was starred by the current user with the label LABEL.
E.g. if changes that are not interesting are marked with an ignore star, they could be filtered out by -star:ignore.
star:star is the same as has:star and is:starred.
has:draft
True if there is a draft comment saved by the current user.
has:star
Same as is:starred and star:star, true if the change has been starred by the current user with the default label.
has:stars
True if the change has been starred by the current user with any label.
has:edit
True if the change has inline edit created by the current user.
has:unresolved
True if the change has unresolved comments.
is:assigned
True if the change has an assignee.
is:starred
Same as has:star, true if the change has been starred by the current user with the default label.
is:unassigned
True if the change does not have an assignee.
is:watched
True if this change matches one of the current user’s watch filters, and thus is likely to notify the user when it updates.
is:reviewed
True if any user has commented on the change more recently than the last update (comment or patch set) from the change owner.
is:owner
True on any change where the current user is the change owner. Same as owner:self.
is:reviewer
True on any change where the current user is a reviewer. Same as reviewer:self.
is:open, is:pending
True if the change is open.
is:closed
True if the change is either merged or abandoned.
is:merged, is:abandoned
Same as status:‘STATE’.
is:submittable
True if the change is submittable according to the submit rules for the project, for example if all necessary labels have been voted on.
This operator only takes into account one change at a time, not any related changes, and does not guarantee that the submit button will appear for matching changes. To check whether a submit button appears, use the Get Revision Actions API.
Equivalent to submittable:ok.
is:mergeable
True if the change has no merge conflicts and could be merged into its destination branch.
Mergeability of abandoned changes is not computed. This operator will not find any abandoned but mergeable changes.
is:ignored
True if the change is ignored. Same as star:ignore.
is:private
True if the change is private, ie. only visible to owner and its reviewers.
is:wip
True if the change is Work In Progress.
status:open, status:pending
True if the change state is review in progress.
status:reviewed
Same as is:reviewed, matches if any user has commented on the change more recently than the last update (comment or patch set) from the change owner.
status:closed
True if the change is either merged or abandoned.
status:merged
Change has been merged into the branch.
status:abandoned
Change has been abandoned.
added:‘RELATION’LINES, deleted:‘RELATION’LINES, delta/size:‘RELATION’LINES
True if the number of lines added/deleted/changed satisfies the given relation for the given number of lines.
For example, added:>50 will be true for any change which adds at least 50 lines.
Valid relations are >=, >, ⇐, <, or no relation, which will match if the number of lines is exactly equal.
commentby:‘USER’
Changes containing a top-level or inline comment by USER. The special case of commentby:self will find changes where the caller has commented.
from:‘USER’
Changes containing a top-level or inline comment by USER, or owned by USER. Equivalent to (owner:USER OR commentby:USER).
reviewedby:‘USER’
Changes where USER has commented on the change more recently than the last update (comment or patch set) from the change owner.
author:‘AUTHOR’
Changes where AUTHOR is the author of the current patch set. AUTHOR may be the author’s exact email address, or part of the name or email address.
committer:‘COMMITTER’
Changes where COMMITTER is the committer of the current patch set. COMMITTER may be the committer’s exact email address, or part of the name or email address.
submittable:‘SUBMIT_STATUS’
Changes having the given submit record status after applying submit rules. Valid statuses are in the status field of SubmitRecord. This operator only applies to the top-level status; individual label statuses can be searched by label.
unresolved:‘RELATION’NUMBER
True if the number of unresolved comments satisfies the given relation for the given number.
For example, unresolved:>0 will be true for any change which has at least one unresolved comment while unresolved:0 will be true for any change which has all comments resolved.
Valid relations are >=, >, ⇐, <, or no relation, which will match if the number of unresolved comments is exactly equal.
Operator values that are not bare words (roughly A-Z, a-z, 0-9, @, hyphen, dot and underscore) must be quoted for the query parser.
Quoting is accepted as either double quotes (e.g. message:"the value") or as matched curly braces (e.g. message:{the value}).
Unless otherwise specified, operators are joined using the AND boolean operator, thereby restricting the search results.
Parentheses can be used to force a particular precedence on complex operator expressions, otherwise OR has higher precedence than AND.
Any operator can be negated by prefixing it with -, for example -is:starred is the exact opposite of is:starred and will therefore return changes that are not starred by the current user.
The operator NOT (in all caps) is a synonym.
The boolean operator AND (in all caps) can be used to join two other operators together. This results in a restriction of the results, returning only changes that match both operators.
The boolean operator OR (in all caps) can be used to find changes that match either operator. This increases the number of results that are returned, as more changes are considered.
Label operators can be used to match approval scores given during a code review. The specific set of supported labels depends on the server configuration, however the Code-Review label is provided out of the box.
A label name is any of the following:
The label name. Example: label:Code-Review.
The label name followed by a , followed by a reviewer id or a group id. To make it clear whether a user or group is being looked for, precede the value by a user or group argument identifier (user= or group=). If an LDAP group is being referenced make sure to use ldap/<groupname>.
A label name must be followed by either a score with optional operator, or a label status. The easiest way to explain this is by example.
First, some examples of scores with operators:
label:Code-Review=2; label:Code-Review=+2; label:Code-Review+2
Matches changes where there is at least one +2 score for Code-Review. The + prefix is optional for positive score values. If the + is used, the = operator is optional.
label:Code-Review=-2; label:Code-Review-2
Matches changes where there is at least one -2 score for Code-Review. Because the negative sign is required, the = operator is optional.
label:Code-Review=1
Matches changes where there is at least one +1 score for Code-Review. Scores of +2 are not matched, even though they are higher.
label:Code-Review>=1
Matches changes with either a +1, +2, or any higher score.
Instead of a numeric vote, you can provide a label status corresponding to one of the fields in the SubmitRecord REST API entity.
label:Non-Author-Code-Review=need
Matches changes where the submit rules indicate that a label named Non-Author-Code-Review is needed. (See the Prolog Cookbook for how this label can be configured.)
label:Code-Review=+2,aname; label:Code-Review=ok,aname
Matches changes with a +2 code review where the reviewer or group is aname.
label:Code-Review=2,user=jsmith
Matches changes with a +2 code review where the reviewer is jsmith.
label:Code-Review=+2,user=owner; label:Code-Review=ok,user=owner; label:Code-Review=+2,owner; label:Code-Review=ok,owner
The special “owner” parameter corresponds to the change owner. Matches all changes that have a +2 vote from the change owner.
label:Code-Review=+1,group=ldap/linux.workflow
Matches changes with a +1 code review where the reviewer is in the ldap/linux.workflow group.
label:Code-Review<=-1
Matches changes with either a -1, -2, or any lower score.
is:open label:Code-Review+2 label:Verified+1 NOT label:Verified-1 NOT label:Code-Review-2; is:open label:Code-Review=ok label:Verified=ok
Matches changes that are ready to be submitted according to one common label configuration. (For a more general check, use submittable:ok.)
is:open (label:Verified-1 OR label:Code-Review-2); is:open (label:Verified=reject OR label:Code-Review:reject)
Changes that are blocked from submission due to a blocking score.
Most of these operators exist to support features of Gerrit Code Review, and are not meant to be accessed by the average end-user. However, they are recognized by the query parser, and may prove useful in limited contexts to administrators or power-users.
visibleto:‘USER-or-GROUP’
Matches changes that are visible to USER or to anyone who is a member of GROUP. Here group names may be specified as either an internal group name, or if LDAP is being used, an external LDAP group name. The value may be wrapped in double quotes to include spaces or other special characters. For example, to match an LDAP group: visibleto:"CN=Developers, DC=example, DC=com".
This operator may be useful to test access control rules, however a change can only be matched if both the current user and the supplied user or group can see it. This is due to the implicit is:visible clause that is always added by the server.
is:visible
Magical internal flag to prove the current user has access to read the change. This flag is always added to any query.
starredby:‘USER’
Matches changes that have been starred by USER with the default label. The special case starredby:self applies to the caller.
watchedby:‘USER’
Matches changes that USER has configured watch filters for. The special case watchedby:self applies to the caller.
draftby:‘USER’
Matches changes that USER has left unpublished draft comments on. Since the drafts are unpublished, it is not possible to see the draft text, or even how many drafts there are. The special case of draftby:self will find changes where the caller has created a draft comment.
limit:‘CNT’
Limit the returned results to no more than CNT records. This is automatically set to the page size configured in the current user’s preferences. Including it in a web query may lead to unpredictable results with regards to pagination.
Part of Gerrit Code Review
