diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.test.ts b/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.test.ts
index 930cabf83ff0cc..d56e6a728db82b 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.test.ts
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.test.ts
@@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ test("it should exclude project entries", () => {
         repo("foo", "project-foo"),
     ];
     const deduplicated = deduplicateAndFilterRepositories("foo", true, suggestedRepos);
-    expect(deduplicated.length).toEqual(1);
+    expect(deduplicated.length).toEqual(2);
+    expect(deduplicated[0].repositoryName).toEqual("foo");
+    expect(deduplicated[1].repositoryName).toEqual("foo2");
 });
 
 test("it should match entries in url as well as poject name", () => {
@@ -75,3 +77,17 @@ test("it keeps the order", () => {
     expect(deduplicated[2].projectName).toEqual("someFootest");
     expect(deduplicated[3].projectName).toEqual("FOOtest");
 });
+
+test("it should return all repositories without duplicates when excludeProjects is true", () => {
+    const suggestedRepos: SuggestedRepository[] = [
+        repo("foo"),
+        repo("foo", "project-foo"),
+        repo("foo", "project-bar"),
+        repo("bar", "project-foo"),
+        repo("bar", "project-bar"),
+    ];
+    const deduplicated = deduplicateAndFilterRepositories("foo", true, suggestedRepos);
+    expect(deduplicated.length).toEqual(2);
+    expect(deduplicated[0].repositoryName).toEqual("foo");
+    expect(deduplicated[1].repositoryName).toEqual("bar");
+});
diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.ts b/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.ts
index 1df558f9c112c7..4ad1c834ff969c 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.ts
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/data/git-providers/unified-repositories-search-query.ts
@@ -53,10 +53,6 @@ export function deduplicateAndFilterRepositories(
         });
     }
     for (const repo of suggestedRepos) {
-        // filter out project entries if excludeProjects is true
-        if (repo.projectId && excludeProjects) {
-            continue;
-        }
         // filter out project-less entries if an entry with a project exists
         if (!repo.projectId && reposWithProject.has(repo.url)) {
             continue;
@@ -66,7 +62,7 @@ export function deduplicateAndFilterRepositories(
             continue;
         }
         // filter out duplicates
-        const key = `${repo.url}:${repo.projectId || "no-project"}`;
+        const key = `${repo.url}:${excludeProjects ? "" : repo.projectId || "no-project"}`;
         if (collected.has(key)) {
             continue;
         }