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author | Jan Provaznik <jprovaznik@gitlab.com> | 2018-12-03 00:47:33 +0300 |
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committer | Jan Provaznik <jprovaznik@gitlab.com> | 2018-12-06 11:25:09 +0300 |
commit | 58bfd733310effa94af0e1f1f19e53e34235cffc (patch) | |
tree | e793b8f8b2669034e80b7668304f3fc75dc23deb /doc | |
parent | 00acef434031b5dc0bf39576a9e83802c7806842 (diff) |
Optimized file search to work without limits
* removed 100 limit on file search results because we
load all results anyway
* expensive processing (parsing match content, utf encoding)
is done only for selected page in paginated output
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/api/search.md | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/search.md b/doc/api/search.md index 9716f682ace..a9369930003 100644 --- a/doc/api/search.md +++ b/doc/api/search.md @@ -722,6 +722,17 @@ Example response: ### Scope: wiki_blobs +Wiki blobs searches are performed on both filenames and contents. Search +results: + +- Found in filenames are displayed before results found in contents. +- May contain multiple matches for the same blob because the search string + might be found in both the filename and content, and matches of the different +types are displayed separately. +- May contain multiple matches for the same blob because the search string + might be found if the search string appears multiple times in the content. + + ```bash curl --request GET --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: 9koXpg98eAheJpvBs5tK" https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/6/search?scope=wiki_blobs&search=bye ``` @@ -783,6 +794,15 @@ Filters are available for this scope: to use a filter simply include it in your query like so: `a query filename:some_name*`. +Blobs searches are performed on both filenames and contents. Search results: + +- Found in filenames are displayed before results found in contents. +- May contain multiple matches for the same blob because the search string + might be found in both the filename and content, and matches of the different +types are displayed separately. +- May contain multiple matches for the same blob because the search string + might be found if the search string appears multiple times in the content. + You may use wildcards (`*`) to use glob matching. ```bash |