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Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by 100k »

ofek wrote: post #20
100k wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I work on code search.) Yeah, sorry about that. We've heard this feedback a lot. There's two reasons why we haven't implemented this. First, content is shared between repositories which makes this harder than before, when it wasn't. Second, we rebuild the index weekly or even more frequently, so the proxy of "when was this added" that was used doesn't work any more. What we would like to use is "when was this blob a…

Does this mean it will not be implemented?

We want to do it right if we do implement it, but I can't promise anything concretely. It's not trivial, unfortunately.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by paulddraper »

ren_engineer wrote: post #23

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…

Now they just need StackOverflow.

They already run a .NET stack....

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by synergy20 »

zzzzzzzza wrote: post #28
ren_engineer wrote: post #23

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…

gitea

good for small projects, I guess the real competitor is gitlab

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by makapuf »

zzzzzzzza wrote: post #28
ren_engineer wrote: post #23

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…

gitea

... is nice but needs the social network effects. Maybe adding some federation and stars / comments as a protocol (not just a program) could help. Maybe it exists and lacks coherence/ publicity.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by synergy20 »

ren_engineer wrote: post #23

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…

except windows itself is not loved by most developers, microsoft will take over the developer world when it replaces its windows with linux fully(instead of WSL2, which is nice but not great)

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by charlieyu1 »

synergy20 wrote: post #45
ren_engineer wrote: post #23

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…

except windows itself is not loved by most developers, microsoft will take over the developer world when it replaces its windows with linux fully(instead of WSL2, which is nice but not great)

Can't see Linux replacing windows, their most profitable products (Windows and MS Office) are both based on closed ecosystem

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by csnover »

h1fra wrote: post #2

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.

Absolutely. GitHub Code Search is by far the most valuable online development tool I have used the past year. It is so much more useful than Copilot or any of the AI LLMs in my experience.

With Code Search, I have:

* Rewritten a CMake build system, which would have been practically impossible without access to real-world examples because of how poorly designed and documented it is;

* Validated machine-generated translations by looking up language strings from projects that used human translators;

* Tracked down bugs in unfamiliar codebases, using symbol-based navigation, without the downtime of fetching a bunch of files and waiting for a language server to process them locally;

* Reviewed how projects were using the APIs of a library I work on to determine whether high-maintenance features were actually used, and whether tricky features were being used correctly or needed redesigning to reduce programmer error

Kudos to the team at GitHub. Genuinely stellar work.

Re: GitHub code search is generally available

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Post by lexh »

colin353 wrote: post #7

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...

Will this make it to GH enterprise eventually?
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