repo VS hound

The button on the browser just navigates to the URL `git-peek://https://github.com/name/repo`. How your system handles this git-peek protocol is completely up to you. While the git-peek package does offer to setup a handler for this custom git-peek protocol, I went ahead and set it up manually. Now, my system calls this bash script whenever it encounters the git-peek protocol:

  #!/usr/bin/env bash

You just clone the repository onto that computer with git clone https://github.com/name/repo. It should work automatically

I have a /home/.ssh/ directory, with id_rsa and id_rsa.pub inside, and I think that's the reason i don't have to manually authenticate, however every post i found about how to use this method also explains that i have to associate the key with my account or repo on github, which i haven't done (at least, when i go to my github setting there's aren't any SSH keys registered), and to use SSH-compatible URLs for my repos, which i'm not doing neither (i'm just using the very normal https ones, like https://github.com/name/repo).

you can install a package with git like using pip install git+https://github.com/name/repo

The same algorithm is also used in Hound (https://github.com/hound-search/hound) though I have to say the best implementation of code search by far that I've seen is https://grep.app

You really should check it out if you haven't already. It's incredibly useful; I used it all the time. Not open source though.

There is also Hound [8].

[8]: https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Agreed, I already have Hound setup to search across all the different repos I pull from (bitbucket, gh, gitlab, gitea etc) but now I need to find a docker equivalent.

i know you're looking for first-party tools that is part of the whole package, but hound does this fantastically and is extremely easy to setup, and is ridiculously fast.

Especially if this is long term, this is a great tool:

https://github.com/hound-search/hound#hound

It would be great if someone integrated this with tree-sitter plus something to make the search semantics a bit smarter about usages of X:

https://www.etsy.com/codeascraft/announcing-hound-a-lightnin...

Screenshots:

https://jaxenter.com/hound-go-react-code-search-engine-15008...

Another trick I use for Java: javap all the Enums out of the compiled artifacts; these indicate weird things like "modes" that you can use to start asking questions relevant to the domain. Like "why are there four ways to reprice an invoice" or finding the "types" of fees or w/e in a billing system. (assuming enum classes are used)

Nice too that it's a compiled language, so you get the end tool in a nice static binary. As a non-Node dev, I hate the experience of hacking on some project and having to install a giant pool of NPM stuff just run some minifier or linter. Hound is an example of this— the guts of the project are golang, but it has a frontend that uses webpack, jest, etc: https://github.com/hound-search/hound

Which is fine, I guess; definitely use the right tool for the job. And maybe Node developers hate finding my Python projects and needing to set up a virtualenv to run them in. But all the same, I approve a direction where more of this kind of tooling is available without a build-time Node dependency.

[2] https://about.sourcegraph.com/

[3] https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/

[4] https://github.com/hound-search/hound