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Meanwhile on GitLab, you can't even search in issue comments (only the title/description from the author).

GitLab team member here.

Comment (and code) search is available for projects in all GitLab tiers: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/#basic-search

Premium and Ultimate users have access to Advanced Search: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/advanced_search.html

There is a way to search for comments using the "global search", but no way to search for text over issues and their comments. In particular, no way to search from the issue tab, no way to search over comments only in issues (or only in merge requests), no way to combine a text search with label/milestone/status filters, etc.

So it's a workaround, but a bad one.

Here's the ticket (2015): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/13891. The fact that it has so many duplicates in your own project's issue tracker is a good indicator of how bad your issue search is.

GitLab team member here.

> no way to combine a text search with label/milestone/status filters, etc.

You can combine text search with field search (like label/milestone/status. Here’s an example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues?search=Visuali...

This doesn't search over comments.

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