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| -rw-r--r-- | archiva-docs/src/site/apt/userguide/searching.apt | 12 |
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diff --git a/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/userguide/searching.apt b/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/userguide/searching.apt index 2622d28a4..15993b9e4 100644 --- a/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/userguide/searching.apt +++ b/archiva-docs/src/site/apt/userguide/searching.apt @@ -71,9 +71,15 @@ Searching * Quick Search The contents of all the files in the repository that matches the above configuration will be indexed during repository - scan. So when you type a word in the search box, Archiva will search the index for that query string and return all the - search hits in the form of a paginated list of artifacts. For example you typed in 'ant', the search result - would contain the list of artifacts that use or reference 'ant'. + scan. So when you type a word in the search box, Archiva will search the index for that query string and + return all the search hits in the form of a paginated list of artifacts. + For example you typed in 'ant', the search result would contain the list of artifacts that use or + reference 'ant'. + + For query strings that are separated by whitespaces, Archiva searches for the exact query string. + So if you typed in 'commons logging', the search result would contain the list of artifacts that use or + reference 'commons logging' and not artifacts that only contain both 'commons' and 'logging' + such as 'commons-logging'. Archiva can also search the index for java classes, packages, and methods and return a list of artifacts containing the query string. In the previous versions, we need to append the keyword 'bytecode:' before the query string in the search box |