No way to select https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint-pytest

[stdedos]

Describe the bug

Trying to select the https://github.com/pylint-dev/pylint-pytest repo is impossible.

Only hacking the URL works.

Give the steps to reproduce

...

What browsers are you seeing the problem on?

Chrome

Have you thought of a possible solution?

Yes

If you have thought of a solution, please tell us about it!

Please accept any of those inputs:

• pylint-pytest
• pylint-dev/pylint-pytest
• https:// github.com/pylint-dev/pylint-pytest (space for immediate-view-ability reasons!)

And, for the last two, the "answer" should be only one specific repo.

For the first one, please "tune down" your fuzzy-matching 😅 Those ones:

Are more or less definitely not candidates

Do you want to help fix the bug?

No

Is there anything else we need to know?

No response

[Belco90]

Hi @stdedos! Thanks for reporting. I'm afraid the fuzzy-matching is the behavior provided by GitHub API search repos endpoint.

I can definitely tweak the behavior on Octochangelog side for searching a single repository when a repo full URL is entered.

[Belco90]

In the meantime, you can access this repo in the comparator by setting it directly through the querystring: https://www.octochangelog.com/compare?repo=pylint-dev%2Fpylint-pytest

[stdedos]

In the meantime, you can access this repo in the comparator by setting it directly through the querystring: octochangelog.com/compare?repo=pylint-dev%2Fpylint-pytest

Yeah, that's what I did 😅

[HonkingGoose]

@Belco90 how about weighing the results, like this:

Rank	Stars	Forks
1	Lots	Lots
2	Fewer	Fewer
3	Barely any	Barely any
4	No stars	No forks

I assume most users of Octochangelog will be interested in the changes in popular projects like big (testing) frameworks, static site generators and other popular libraries and things. So that's why putting the popular stuff first is likely what most users want/expect.

I don't know if this is do-able, or what the cost is in API-calls or compute time. 😄

[Belco90]

@HonkingGoose I believe GitHub API endpoint for this search allows sorting by stars. That should improve the results.

[HonkingGoose]

Sorting by stars sounds good!

[stdedos]

... Not for my case 😅

But sure - if "somehow" Github refuses to find my repo/fork otherwise, then 🤷

[Belco90]

I've tested sorting by stars, but didn't help to display this repo in the results (and would change the sorting for many other searches).

The fix will definitely be allowing to enter an exact repo with <owner>/<repo_name> in the search box so that will assume you want to select a specific one.