Unable to use search to find PDF or similar files within a repo using the path qualifier #116489
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Select Topic AreaBug BodyAssume you have a repo that contains some pdf files within the repo's contents, buried in one or more folders. If you try to use path:*.pdf in the github.com search, it will report "Your search did not match any code" This also applies to other binary documentation formats: *.docx, *.pptx, etc. Granted, pdf files are not code but I am not expecting the contents to be searched, just let me know if the file(s) exists and where they are located. here is an example of a repo with a pdf file in the root folder and search is unable to find the file... |
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Binary files are excluded from code search. We would like to index their paths so searches like this will work, but I can't say when we'll be able to get to that. |
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Binary files are excluded from code search.
We would like to index their paths so searches like this will work, but I can't say when we'll be able to get to that.