Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

github.blog

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 187 posts

Re: The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

#3

Post by ezekg »

I use their new code search a lot to grok how people use certain features, or implement certain things. But I do wish there was a way to filter out forks. Sometimes I search a string and just get a bunch of forks all with the same result. For example, searching a common class in a Rails app often just shows a bunch of rails/rails forks, which is a lot of noise to sift through when you're trying to see how devs commonly use a certain feature.

Re: The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

#4

Post by ZephyrBlu »

I really hope they release this soon and that it’s actually good.

The current search sucks ass, you can’t find anything.

I was trying to search for something in the WebKit source the other day and I had to use Sourcegraph because the GitHub search gave me zero results.

Re: The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

#7

Post by 100k »

ezekg wrote: post #3

I use their new code search a lot to grok how people use certain features, or implement certain things. But I do wish there was a way to filter out forks. Sometimes I search a string and just get a bunch of forks all with the same result. For example, searching a common class in a Rails app often just shows a bunch of rails/rails forks, which is a lot of noise to sift through when you're trying to see how devs common…

Thanks for the feedback! That's coming, we've been prioritizing scaling the index and ingest process and haven't had a chance got add that yet. There are a bunch of value-add features like this I am looking forward to knocking out soon.

Re: The technology behind GitHub’s new code search

#9

Post by 100k »

ZephyrBlu wrote: post #4

I really hope they release this soon and that it’s actually good. The current search sucks ass, you can’t find anything. I was trying to search for something in the WebKit source the other day and I had to use Sourcegraph because the GitHub search gave me zero results.

You can try it right now in our beta. Right now, we are onboarding all signups daily. Sign up here: https://github.com/features/code-search

Obvious disclaimer because I work on this (and I also worked on the legacy search): It is way better.

Post reply on HN