Releases search brings back non-intuitive results #156959
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As far as I can tell, this page of documentation is also incorrect: Nothing like |
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github releases search should prioritize exact match over fuzzy search result. |
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When attempting to use the Search navigation on Releases for a project, the results are sometimes unintelligible. There is also no obvious documentation on how to structure search queries to fine-tune results. This becomes very cumbersome to use, especially on mono-repos. Regardless of whether things are surround by quotes or not, it brings back partial matches from anywhere in the release content. This includes both the title and the description. For example:
This brings back any result with "load", "files", "7" or "0" in it, even though it is surround by quotes. Yet, at no point does this bring back anything that matches a release with the name "load-files@7.0.0" even though such a release exist. That repository has more than 1449 releases in it. Searching is very important if you're trying to find breaking changes on major releases in a mono-repo.
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