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>Without code search, you might have to clone a bunch of repositories and grep through them Why is this an issue? I do have a clone of all my company repos, doesn't everyone? Memory is cheap and ripgrep/ag are fast.
I'm Colin from GitHub's code search team, happy to answer any questions. For more info on how we built this, you can check out our technical blog post from a few months ago https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43891605/search-partial-...
It's been almost 6 years, though... for a search scenario that would be trivial to implement with grep (at scale that's another thing...) Still, a nice example of perfect being the enemy of good, I guess.
Surprised more people aren't talking about how Microsoft has a near monopoly on the developer ecosystem. They've got GitHub, OpenAI, and VS Code all working together and collecting data that strengthen each other's products while also using their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL and all of these steer people towards Azure services whenever possible. Seems like something that verges on an anti-trust situa…
I have been using since the beta, truly the most impressive product released in the last 5 years (along with chatgpt). The amount of indexed code, the quickness and the precision of this search is simply stunning.
Is the difference that now the basic search functionality actually works? The previous standard GitHub search I found to be remarkably bad. I would be looking at some small public repo, search for an exact string match I know exists in the code, scope the search to that repo only, and still see zero results. Even copy-pasting a line of code from a file in the repo often resulted in zero matches.
>Without code search, you might have to clone a bunch of repositories and grep through them Why is this an issue? I do have a clone of all my company repos, doesn't everyone? Memory is cheap and ripgrep/ag are fast.
Bandwidth is not cheap for many of us.
Bitbucket has a 2GB max size on each repo, I'd suspect other providers have similar restrictions. Would be a problem on mobile but repos that hit that limit are rare.
I'm Colin from GitHub's code search team, happy to answer any questions. For more info on how we built this, you can check out our technical blog post from a few months ago https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...
It would be really awesome if code search could one day consume LSIF for precise results in its index similar to source graph. The symbol search is good now, but approximate. Having more precise code search by allowing devs to upload LSIF data in their CI pipelines would allow for precise symbol search (go to definition / find usages actually being accurate) and remove irrelevant result.
Surprised more people aren't talking about how Microsoft has a near monopoly on the developer ecosystem. They've got GitHub, OpenAI, and VS Code all working together and collecting data that strengthen each other's products while also using their embrace, extend, extinguish strategy with WSL and all of these steer people towards Azure services whenever possible. Seems like something that verges on an anti-trust situa…
How do one access the new search?
I'm happy that at last, my Stack Overflow question and answer have been fully solved with technology improvements! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43891605/search-partial-... It's been almost 6 years , though... for a search scenario that would be trivial to implement with grep (at scale that's another thing...) Still, a nice example of perfect being the enemy of good, I guess.