How do I search for a keyword in in a particular branch of the entire repository?

[Jasmine.Chacko]

When I do not know in which project to look for a particular code, I would like to search the entire repo with searck key. But only if the search key exists in the master branch, I get the result. If it's in any other branch, I do not see the result.

Is there any way that I can search in a particular branch?

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi Jasmine,

Welcome to the Atlassian Community.

You have the option to select which branch you want to search by clicking the drop-down field for branches

[Jasmine.Chacko]

Thank you for your answer. Above screen shot is only for a specific project. But I would like to search in the entire repository under my org. For example, I have 4 projects who have 'develop' branch. I would like to search in that branch of all those 4 projects together.  (I can do this only for 'master' branch for now and not for any other branches)

[Mikael Sandberg]

The screenshot if from within a repository, not a project. Projects are just a way of organizing your repositories.

It is not possible to search across multiple repositories, you can only search within the repository and in the selected branch.

[Jasmine.Chacko]

Thank you for the clarification. I was actually looking for searching among multiple repositories with the same branch name. Looks like it's possible if the branch is 'master'. 

[Mikael Sandberg]

Correct, the search across multiple repositories will only do the search on the default branch, which in most cases is master. These are the restrictions for search:

There are some restrictions on how searches are performed:

• Only the default branch is searchable (for most repositories the default branch will be master).
• Only files smaller than 512 KiB are searchable.
• Wildcard searches (e.g. qu?ck buil*) are not supported.
• All punctuation characters are removed. !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
• Regular expressions in queries are not supported, but you can search for special characters.
• Case is not preserved, however search operators must be in ALL CAPS.
• Queries cannot have more than 9 expressions (e.g. combinations of terms and operators).
• The maximum length of a query cannot exceed 250 characters.

• Only code you have permission to view will appear in the search results.