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Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by obeattie » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:37 PM UTC

Thank goodness. This is the part of GitHub that has been driving me up the wall for months. Google is pretty useless in this area when you're looking for something buried within a repo.

Fantastic job, it works beautifully. Congratulations (to GitHub and to Elastic Search - I'm sure it's a big win for them too!)

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by eps » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:40 PM UTC

Nice. There are six C++ projects that use bool_t type.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by axefrog » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:41 PM UTC

Where is the link to the search page? When I go to github.com and it displays my dashboard, I can't find anything resembling a link to the search page. There's the command bar, but it doesn't seem to provide code search unless you click the advanced search link. I love the new features Github has developed over time, but if it's a pain to find the feature, it's not going to see a lot of use.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by sharjeel » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:41 PM UTC

Its pretty neat now. They forgot the "I'm feeling lucky" button though.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by adamnemecek » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:43 PM UTC

axefrog wrote: post #13

Where is the link to the search page? When I go to github.com and it displays my dashboard, I can't find anything resembling a link to the search page. There's the command bar, but it doesn't seem to provide code search unless you click the advanced search link. I love the new features Github has developed over time, but if it's a pain to find the feature, it's not going to see a lot of use.

https://github.com/search and https://github.com/search/advanced respectively. But you can just use the dashboard search.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by anonymouz » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:45 PM UTC

When I try the advanced search with "something stars:>500" it also seems to match the string "500" in code for some reason.

Edit: And apparently "stars" for that matter.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by benmanns » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:53 PM UTC

This is pretty cool for finding local talent: https://github.com/search?l=Ruby&p=1&q=location%3A%2...

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by danso » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:55 PM UTC

Being able to filter by stars is great...One other filter that would be nice is days-since-lsat-commit. I guess number of stars is rough estimate of how active a repo is, but as the years go on, there will probably be more and more projects that are basically dead, yet still have a high number of stars.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by zem » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:59 PM UTC

very nice. one bad setting (perhaps a default that never got overridden) is that searching for foo_bar searches for foo and bar separately, rather than treating foo_bar as an indivisible token.

Re: A Whole New Code Search

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Post by vinhboy » Wed, Jan 23, 2013, 6:59 PM UTC

Is there an "order by" functionality? When looking for code. I like to find the code with the most stars.

Ugh.. that reminds me of the good old days when HN had visible karma points...