On: GitHub code search is generally available

[radicality]

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.

[AtNightWeCode → radicality]

I don't get it too. Maybe one needs to enable something. The search is still useless. Locally I use git-grep.

[Trasmatta → AtNightWeCode]

You might want to consider replacing git-grep with ripgrep.

[Arnavion → AtNightWeCode]

It seems you still need to enable the feature. Click your user icon in the top right -> choose "Feature preview" in the dropdown -> enable the "New Code Search and Code View" feature.

[bagels → Arnavion]

How that is not standard for the last 10 years is baffling.

[Kuinox → bagels]

Indexing/searching properly such massive data is not easy feat.

[iudqnolq → Kuinox]

Indexing cost doesn't scale with number of searchers

[fallat → AtNightWeCode]

Same experience here. Are there advertisement accounts posting here or something? Legitimately weird.

[colin353 → fallat]

Ah, you need to log in to get access to the new code search!