Tips:
- By default, file finder results exclude some directories like
build
,log
,tmp
, andvendor
. To search for files in these directories, use thefilename
code search qualifier. Alternatively, you can customize which directories are excluded by default using a.gitattributes
file. - You can also open the file finder by pressing
t
on your keyboard. For more information, see "Keyboard shortcuts."
Using the file finder
- On GitHub, navigate to the main page of the repository.
- In the “Go to file” search bar, type the name of the file or directory you'd like to find.
- Alternatively, if there is no "Go to file" search bar, click Go to file, then type the name of the file or directory you'd like to find.
- In the list of results, click the file or directory you wanted to find. You can view the file path for a directory or file below each search result.
Customizing excluded files
By default, file finder results do not include files in the following directories if they exist at your repository root:
.git
.hg
.sass-cache
.svn
build
dot_git
log
tmp
vendor
You can override these default exclusions using a .gitattributes
file.
To do this, create or update a file called .gitattributes
in your repository root, setting the linguist-generated
attribute to false
for each directory that should be included in file finder results.
For example, the following .gitattributes
file would cause files in the build/
directory to be available to the file finder:
build/** linguist-generated=false
Note that this override requires the use of the recursive glob pattern (**
). For more information, see "pattern format" in the Git documentation. More complex overrides of subdirectories within excluded-by-default directories are not supported.
Further reading
- "About searching on GitHub"
- "Customizing how changed files appear on GitHub"
.gitattributes
in the Git documentation