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Commit Search in Azure DevOps

4 posts · Nov 2016 – Jul 2026

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Commit Search is now generally available in Azure DevOps, allowing users to search for commits by text in their title and description across their entire organization. It offers filtering by Project, Repository, Author, and Branch, and sorting by Commit time or Relevance. The feature is rolling out in stages and indexes commit data ahead of time.

All Microsoft trails
  1. Find any commit in seconds: Commit Search comes to Azure DevOpsAnnounces the general availability of Commit Search in Azure DevOps, detailing its capabilities to search commit messages (title and description) across an entire organization, with filtering by Project, Repository, Author, and Branch, and sorting by Commit time or Relevance. It also mentions that most commit data is indexed ahead of time, and any remaining data is indexed automatically upon the first search.
  2. Announcing General Availability of Work item searchThis post announces the general availability of Work item search in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). It highlights the ability to search across one or more projects, search across all work item fields (including custom fields) using free text, and search within specific work item fields using rich inline search filters with logical operators. The interface integrates with the Work hub for viewing, editing, and commenting on work items. Work item search is in progress for TFS 2017.
  3. Team Services December Extensions RoundupThis post introduces Work Item Search, a feature for fast and flexible text search of all Work Item fields across all projects in an account, with inline search filters for narrowing down results. It also introduces Code Coverage Widgets for dashboards, displaying unit test code coverage percentage based on a selected build definition.
  4. Announcing Public Preview for Work Item SearchThis post announces the public preview of Work Item Search in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS). It details how to enable the feature via the VSTS Marketplace, perform full-text searches across all work item fields (including custom fields), scope searches across one or more projects, and use quick inline filters to refine results by specific criteria on any work item field. It also highlights the rich integration with the Work hub for viewing, editing, and commenting on work items.