Problem

When performing a search, some but not all occurrences of the search term are shown in the results.

This is usually observed in the following situations:

• the file containing the search term is large
• the occurrences of the term are not close to each other

Explanation

• When a search is performed, up to 3 "fragments" of code will be returned for a given file that contains content that match the search query.
  The maximum number of fragments is set to 3 and is not configurable.
• Each of these fragments can contain multiple occurrences of the search string
• Each of these fragments is a chunk of up to 1400 characters
• If there were more occurrences of the search term outside of these 3 fragments, they will not be returned as search matches.

Sample

• In this sample, a search for the term "gitactivity" was performed.
• Two files were found containing the search string "gitactivity".
• The first file shows 3 fragments showing multiple occurrences (21 matches) of the term.
  Other occurrences of the term outside of these 3 fragments are not shown.
• The second file shows 1 fragment showing one match

Workaround

The search returns file(s) that contain at least one occurrence of the search term.

For situations that fall into the the scenario described in this KB (such as in the first file in the example), to find other occurrences of the search term:

• Go into the file by clicking the link to the file name
• Press the shortcut keys "CTRL + F" (or "CMD + F" for Mac)
• Type in the search term in the "Find" search box
  

Reference

Please see the following link for other considerations related to code search:

Search for code in Bitbucket Server

New feature request

The following suggestion ticket was raised for this:

BSERV-12443 - Getting issue details... STATUS