How to search for file and folder name inside repo?

[finzzz]

I have enabled repo indexer so that I can search code inside files of certain repo. But I also want to search for file/folder name, how do I do that?

I have tried **keyword, **keyword**, **.py, etc. But it didn't work.

[lunny]

It's not supported yet.

[guillep2k]

Sorry for the cross-post:
It should not be that difficult to add file names to the repo indexer as indexed words; file names in this case should probably skip the indexer glob filter?

[ili101]

Any progress on this?
Or workaround available?

[guillep2k]

@ili101 we gladly welcome PRs. 😁

[ili101]

@ili101 we gladly welcome PRs. 😁

That's an awesome thing! unforgivably Go is not one of my expertise (yet) 😁

[love1900905]

+1, for many time, filename/pathname is even more meaningful than file content.

[rengui]

First of all, thanks great gitea! I'm using gitea heavyly and it works lightweightly and smoothly for years!

Back to this topic, I need this feature as well recently. After kinds of struggling,

• gitea code search, kinds of config => no supported yet.
• Kooder (a gitee open source code search tool for gitlab/gitee/gitea), can search filename itself, but not pathname yet (https://gitee.com/koode/kooder/issues/I4MWJA?from=project-issue).

It was resolved today, by change 1 line of code (gitea branch 1.15.7, for bleve search only):

// change modules\indexer\code\elastic_search.go if you are using ES.
modules\indexer\code\bleve.go

func (b *BleveIndexer) addUpdate(batchWriter ...
	......
	return batch.Index(id, &RepoIndexerData{
	RepoID:   repo.ID,
		CommitID: commitSha,
		Content:   string(charset.ToUTF8DropErrors(fileContents)),    // <--- this line

==>

	// Content:   string("Pathname: ") + string(update.Filename) + string(" \n") + string(charset.ToUTF8DropErrors(fileContents)),
	// replace '/' with ' / ', so that bleve think  '/foo/bar.txt' as  '/ foo / bar.txt'
	//   (then can be searched by both 'foo' and 'bar'; otherwise bleve only like '/foo/bar.txt' ???)
	Content:   string("Pathname: ") + strings.ReplaceAll(string(update.Filename), "/", " / ") + string(" \n") + string(charset.ToUTF8DropErrors(fileContents)),

then build your own gitea.exe and enjoy it :)

After replace this gitea.exe, you may need to delete all the code search index files (app.ini: REPO_INDEXER_PATH = ), restart gitea to make a full indexing (with pathname search enabled)

[lunny]

First of all, thanks great gitea! I'm using gitea heavyly and it works lightweightly and smoothly for years!

Back to this topic, I need this feature as well recently. After kinds of struggling,

• gitea code search, kinds of config => no supported yet.
• Kooder (a gitee open source code search tool for gitlab/gitee/gitea), can search filename itself, but not pathname yet (https://gitee.com/koode/kooder/issues/I4MWJA?from=project-issue).

It was resolved today, by change 1 line of code (gitea branch 1.15.7, for bleve search only):

// change modules\indexer\code\elastic_search.go if you are using ES. modules\indexer\code\bleve.go

func (b *BleveIndexer) addUpdate(batchWriter ...
	......
	return batch.Index(id, &RepoIndexerData{
	RepoID:   repo.ID,
		CommitID: commitSha,
		Content:   string(charset.ToUTF8DropErrors(fileContents)),    // <--- this line

==>

	// Content:   string("Pathname: ") + string(update.Filename) + string(" \n") + string(charset.ToUTF8DropErrors(fileContents)),
	// replace '/' with ' / ', so that bleve think  '/foo/bar.txt' as  '/ foo / bar.txt'
	//   (then can be searched by both 'foo' and 'bar'; otherwise bleve only like '/foo/bar.txt' ???)
	Content:   string("Pathname: ") + strings.ReplaceAll(string(update.Filename), "/", " / ") + string(" \n") + string(charset.ToUTF8DropErrors(fileContents)),

then build your own gitea.exe and enjoy it :)

After replace this gitea.exe, you may need to delete all the code search index files (app.ini: REPO_INDEXER_PATH = ), restart gitea to make a full indexing (with pathname search enabled)

A general method is to add a new field Filename in RepoIndexerData.

[rengui]

A general method is to add a new field Filename in RepoIndexerData.

Yes you are right, from gitea deve pov, it shall go in a general way, ensure code quality and extensibility.
What I mentioned was just from a gitea user pov, try to hack and get a working WA asap. :)

[delanym]

@lunny why cant your workaround be a PR?

[wxiaoguang]

FYI, there is a new feature: Go to file

• Feature: Find files in repo #15028

It should be more convenient if you know you are searching for file names: