Code search on GitHub now requires login
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Code search on GitHub now requires login
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Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
#2And soon it will require an Outlook or Live account, no doubt.
Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
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Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
#4It always has for me. I was forced to use my gh logged in browser when I wanted that feature.
Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
#5Or just use grep.app
Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
#6One month later and GitHub still hasn’t addressed the issue of inability to sort searches by new. This is despite their announcement having hundreds of downvotes and equally as many comments saying the new search is terrible.
Pathetic.
Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
#7Depending on ones needs for search, a shout-out to Sourcegraph (https://sourcegraph.com/search) which in addition to offering anonymous search also supports regex searches and -- perhaps most relevant -- "go to symbol" for a huge number of cases. That alone can often save a "search" because it understands the relationships in the text
It's painless to use them because they have mapped the routes on sourcegraph.com to the github repo, so things like https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes just magically work
I love them so much
Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
#8Hit this today weeding out npm dependency search results for a particular module.
Made yet another throwaway account to do the searches.
I can't see how making my research harder helped anyone.
Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
#9Depending on ones needs for search, a shout-out to Sourcegraph ( https://sourcegraph.com/search ) which in addition to offering anonymous search also supports regex searches and -- perhaps most relevant -- "go to symbol" for a huge number of cases. That alone can often save a "search" because it understands the relationships in the text It's painless to use them because they have mapped the routes on sourcegraph.com…
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Re: Code search on GitHub now requires login
#10no worries. check out https://github1s.com, just s/github/github1s/ on any URL and you will get a read-only VSCode viewer of the repo source code. It also comes with partial support to jump between symbols.