Ability to filter branches by exact string

43 votes

As a user, I would like to be able to filter branches by exact string in order to not have unwanted results returned. The fuzzy search can return too many matches.

+ Potential solution to put quotes "" around a term to filter for branches containing the whole string.

Under consideration Suggested by: Joey Kelroy (20 Jul, '21) • Upvoted: 2 days ago • Comments: 7

Comments: 7

05 Aug, '21
Piotr
+1
I don't see any added value from fuzzy search. I have a few thousand branches and it's extremely leggy and brings up many false positives. After bearing with unresponsiveness for a few seconds, I have to search for my branch manually.
25 Aug, '21
Giacomo Zanotti Admin
"Ability to filter a branch by GitHub format: `fork-name:branch-name`" (suggested by Mati on 2021-08-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
11 Nov, '21
Roberto
I really can´t believe a paid app don´t have such a basic feature as searching an exact string. Please add this feature in very near future!
14 Nov, '22
Mark
I would really like to see this feature added. The current fuzzy search mechanism is painful to use when filtering branches by name.
08 Dec, '22
Tom Pratt
This is desperately needed! The fuzzy search is not helpful.
13 Feb, '23
GM
GitKraken's "character salad" filter is terrible. It's the only thing I've ever used that does this.
2 days ago
Adam Tow
Please please address this.