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Re: Searchcode: Source code search engine

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Post by boyter »

anarcat wrote: post #10

it looks like there's a bunch of stuff out there that this doesn't find. it seems limited to specific silos like github and so on. the debian code search, on the other hand, has access to all software shipped with debian: https://codesearch.debian.net/ this is arguably another silo, but the diversity of software in there is also interesting.

Yes there are a few reasons for that. Mostly cost (it runs on 2 servers) and it can only index things that are publicly exposed. Since the majority of code released is in github it tends to skew towards it as the main source.

It does however index the following (and more) repository locations, Github, Bitbucket, Fedora Project, Google Code, CodePlex, Sourceforge, Tizen Project, Google Android, Minix3, Seek Quarry, Gitorious and a collection of sources from GNU Savannah.

Im always looking to add more, so if you know of say a github for fossil projects (tarpit would be an excellent name for this BTW) let me know so I can add and index them.

Re: Searchcode: Source code search engine

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Post by boyter »

Quanttek wrote: post #4
boyter wrote: post #3

Well did not expect this to pop up again. Creator of searchcode.com here so feel free to ask questions. However preemptively, Why it is not 100% free software http://www.boyter.org/2014/10/searchcode-com-100-free-softwa... My responses to the previous discussion on HN http://www.boyter.org/2014/07/feedback-loop/ and the last discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7947075 I am currently working on an offline…

Well, but couldn't you just don't offer any support? If you would publish it on Github, you could just 'unwatch' it and maybe let the community support itself. Of course, bug reports and contributions are nice, so you could have a few trusted colloborateurs, who forward those few useful 'issues' to you EDIT: I meant my comment more in the way of "Do you actually have an obligation to support your free software?". It'…

Unable to edit so adding a new comment. Yes that's possible but I think the result would be the same. I freely publish my details around so I think I would still get quite a lot of support requests.

Re: Searchcode: Source code search engine

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Post by boyter »

fiona wrote: post #13

Really cool. Would be great if it would dedupe identical documents, since a lot of repos are forks of other repos with minimal changes.

It actually does to an extent (its an offline process I need to run again actually).

Have a look at this search https://searchcode.com/?q=jquery+mobile notice that after a bit next to each result the text "Show 100 matches" appears? These are the duplicated identified by the system (limited to 100 results but all dupes should be gone).

The matching is a little fuzzy as well to try and clear out minor revisions of the same file or simple whitespace replacements etc...

Re: Searchcode: Source code search engine

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Post by Ace17 »

boyter wrote: post #3

Well did not expect this to pop up again. Creator of searchcode.com here so feel free to ask questions. However preemptively, Why it is not 100% free software http://www.boyter.org/2014/10/searchcode-com-100-free-softwa... My responses to the previous discussion on HN http://www.boyter.org/2014/07/feedback-loop/ and the last discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7947075 I am currently working on an offline…

What about Launchpad?

Re: Searchcode: Source code search engine

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Post by boyter »

Ace17 wrote: post #15
boyter wrote: post #3

Well did not expect this to pop up again. Creator of searchcode.com here so feel free to ask questions. However preemptively, Why it is not 100% free software http://www.boyter.org/2014/10/searchcode-com-100-free-softwa... My responses to the previous discussion on HN http://www.boyter.org/2014/07/feedback-loop/ and the last discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7947075 I am currently working on an offline…

What about Launchpad?

Sorry not sure what you mean by this. Could you explain further please.
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