Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
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Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
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Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#2I want to work at github. They're making cool things.
Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#3I would settle for the ability to use logical OR when searching issues/pull requests, or to combine multiple negated searches.
"is:pr is:open ( author:bob OR author:jim )"
The lack of this pretty basic functionality makes issue & PR search much less useful than it could be.
Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#4wait, they can't search through forks or collate identical results and they are going into natural language processing?
Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#5This might just be me, but does anyone else feel that GitHub's code search has other points that could be improved first?
My biggest gripe is that the other results show in seems to be totally random. For example, if I have a Java class called A and I search "class A" in code search, the actual A.java doesn't tend to show up anywhere near the front. I just tried this in a repo and the actual A.java file was on the last page of results when I searched "class A". The vast majority of the results before it didn't even have the words "class" and "A" next to each other, which A.java does...
Maybe I'm doing something wrong (I'd welcome any input on how to use code search correctly!), but it just feels like they're jumping the gun on trying to make their code search more advanced when the basic functionality doesn't work that well.
Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#6They should add regex search support first before this stuff.
Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#7GitHub is building some amazing stuff recently, I guess now that Microsoft is going to acquire them, there's far less pressure on making Github Enterprise profitable..
Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#8This might just be me, but does anyone else feel that GitHub's code search has other points that could be improved first? My biggest gripe is that the other results show in seems to be totally random. For example, if I have a Java class called A and I search "class A" in code search, the actual A.java doesn't tend to show up anywhere near the front. I just tried this in a repo and the actual A.java file was on the la…
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Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#9This might just be me, but does anyone else feel that GitHub's code search has other points that could be improved first? My biggest gripe is that the other results show in seems to be totally random. For example, if I have a Java class called A and I search "class A" in code search, the actual A.java doesn't tend to show up anywhere near the front. I just tried this in a repo and the actual A.java file was on the la…
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Re: Towards Natural Language Semantic Code Search at GitHub
#10I want to work at github. They're making cool things.
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