Searching Gerrit by Commit Message

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Our team uses a standard of prefixing all commit messages with "bz12345:" (where 12345 is replaced by the bug you're working on) and I'd like to be able to search for all commits that have that bug number.

I've read http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.1.6/user-search.html over and over and haven't figured out a way to search for commit message titles. Does anybody have a trick for searching the first line of a commit message for arbitrary text? None of message:, tr:, and bug: work.

score 27 · Accepted Answer · edited May 16 '13 at 14:59

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Ah, I figured it out. You MUST have a status: query too. For example, this works:

status:merged message:bz12345

This does not:

message:bz12345

This could be because we're on an older version of Gerrit (2.2.1 I think).

edited May 16 '13 at 14:59

palacsint

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answered Jan 21 '13 at 15:51

Jed Anderson

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The necessity to add `status:merged` (and limitation that you cannot search both merged and open) exists in Gerrit 2.7 too. Hopefully it is removed in some future versions. I think i saw this working *correctly* though I don't know which version fixes this. – Piotr Findeisen Apr 09 '15 at 08:13

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '13 at 01:01

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message:bz12345 should work.

See the latest documentation

Note that it searches the whole message body though, not just the subject.

message:'MESSAGE'

Changes that match MESSAGE arbitrary string in the commit message body.

answered Jan 19 '13 at 01:01

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Searching Gerrit by Commit Message

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