Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

Post by marceloabsousa » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 2:01 PM UTC

sdesol wrote: post #49

thanatos_dem wrote: post #37

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If this were to be offered by an actual company (a first party solution), there are some features that'd be expected that make the problem space a lot harder. Here's an "intro to search" article that's a good read, and I'll use it to highlight some of the things that'd be different in a first party solution - https://medium.com/startup-grind/what-every-software-enginee... (See the "Theory: the search problem" section…

For GitHub, I would have to imagine only being able to search public repos with regexp would be good enough. GitHub has many strategies, but the main one is, they want to maintain, if not, expand their open source mind share. The more reasons you give people to go to GitHub, the better off they will be in the future. So I do agree with you that as a commercial solution, this may not be viable, but for GitHub's public…

Post by giancarlostoro » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 2:33 PM UTC

cole-h wrote: post #81

nickthemagicman wrote: post #59

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You can but only in the repo itself not on a site wide scale.

Really? I searched for `filename:home.nix` (which brought me to https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=filename%3Ahome.n... ). That seems site-wide to me, unless I'm misunderstanding you.

Post by sqs » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

edwinyzh wrote: post #131

akavel wrote: post #108

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Doesn't sourcegraph allow to just search regex over any files in a repo? This is textual search, so how are languages relevant to it? I didn't seem to have problems with that

Sorry, maybe I have confused SourceGraph with https://searchcode.com , but last time I tried, it supports only most widely used languages such as Java, Python and so on, but not the language I use (Delphi/Object Pascal). I'm sorry if I'm wrong.

Post by fjp » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 3:40 PM UTC

yakshaving_jgt wrote: post #97

nickthemagicman wrote: post #60

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Sure you built app on multi 20 core machines with functionality to search hundreds of millions of lines of code almost instantaneously, but are you someone I'd drink a beer with?

This snide remark dismisses the fact that working on software does mean working with other humans, not just unemotional robots devoid of any kind of irrational ideas. Being able to “drink a beer with” (and reasonably substituting the drinking of beer for just about any other social interaction) is an important part of being able to work with someone. Unless of course you believe an office environment consisting of a…

Post by bananaeater » Mon, Feb 24, 2020, 4:14 PM UTC

sn4pp wrote: post #104

Seems to be good for stuff like api_key="[a-z0-9]+" Ty