如何在 gitlab 中搜索 URL？

Question

May be this is too straightforward but I am unable to do a basic search for a url in gitlab UI.

URL = /api/v1/user/{userId}

I need to check in which file or project of a particular repository this path exists but gitlab search returns

We couldn't find any projects matching /api/v1/user/{userId}

I am assuming it has something to do with / just like escape sequence.

Can someone help?

Thanks

Answer 1

There are two issues here.

Firstly, by default, queries in the search bar will search for projects by name. Since you are looking for occurrences in code, make sure you are using the code tab of the search. If you don't see the code tab in the global search, it means your self-hosted GitLab instance does not have advanced search configured and, in which case, you can only search for code project-by-project and you cannot use advanced search syntax.

Secondly, you need to use an advanced search syntax to search for an exact match to a string. In this case, you should enclose the literal string you want to match in quotes, like: "/api/v1/user/{userId}" . For further reading, see advanced search syntax .