Tuesday, September 16, 2025

BUGGISH: GitHub Search Result Does Not Show Certain Repositories (Work-around)

My corporation has over 15000 repositories. I have migrated over 800+ repositories with no issue. Suddenly a group of apps did not show up. I migrated more and those showed up.

I do not know if it was because of the timing to some internal issue to GitHub. I spent about an hour figuring out why it does not show. I can access the repositories manually by updating the URL.

I decided to see if I updated the description, if it would check there instead. And suddenly, it came up in the results. Only for that one repo. So, I had to go through each of the missing repos and update the description just to have it appear. I only put part of the project name and I can search the repo name that doesn't include the project name. 

My guess is that saving caused GitHub to "index" the repo again. The repos were migrated last Friday. It has been several days. I don't know the root cause but this seemed to resolve the issue. 

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