dcs VS bloop

What is a good open-source system for code search if I want to plug 100 or so git repos into it and have it available over the web? GH search is not desirable because it would search too broadly and would not cover repos on Gitlab etc.

I looked at the Debian code search [1] in the past, but for some reason thought it required a bit too much effort and didn't complete my investigation of it. Though [2] looks pretty approachable.

Sourcegraph mentioned Zoekt [3], but I am not sure how usable it is. If it was pretty good, why did Sourcegraph OSS exist?

Finally, from all the discussion how Sourcegraph OSS was very behind in the past few years, I guess there is no serious plan to fork it?

[1]: https://github.com/Debian/dcs

[2]: https://github.com/Debian/dcs/blob/main/howto/building.md

[3]: https://github.com/sourcegraph/zoekt

https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop Is fully open source and has full text + regex search built on tantivy fyi

Thanks! Bloop really helped with the documentation! they index your code base and uses RAG locally to talk against it. It works shockingly well.

In this blog post, I’ll be comparing 3 distinct AI-first code search tools I recently came across: Cody (developed by late-stage startup, Sourcegraph), SeaGOAT (an open-source project that was trending on HN last week), and Bloop (an early-stage YC startup). I’ll be evaluating them along the dimensions of user-friendliness as well as their accuracy.

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Another example is Bloop, it is a code search engine built on top of tantivy and qdrant.

Bloop is a developer assistant that uses GPT-4 to answer questions about your codebase (https://github.com/BloopAI/bloop)