Sourcegraph is no longer Open Source

• sourcegraph

  69 9,697 10.0 Go

  Code AI platform with Code Search & Cody

  

Sourcegraph only provided non-OSS images and the build process was difficult and broken for a long time, the application itself was frequently broken in OSS version as well, searching issues for a few minutes brings up quite a few results. [1] [2] [3] [4]

It's no wonder, that the usage of OSS version was pretty low, when few were able to build it and even if they managed that, the resulting application was broken every few releases.

Both VS Code and Chromium are easy to build, due to their nature and popularity, they are available prebuilt from many sources. I would install "unofficial" Chromium build from my distribution's repository, I wouldn't keep my code in unofficial Sourcegraph build from some random person on Github. Comparing them is rather unfair, but there's another issue that stopped OSS adoption.

For a long time, official Sourcegraph Docker image came with a 10 seat free license, which suited many people and they weren't looking for alternatives like OSS build.

I would argue that announcing license change and closing of your product as a small block in change log file or when someone mentions the problem in Github Issues is not adequate for such a change.

Not using open-first principles, restricting the product by using enterprise only plugins, which others mentioned under this post, not providing open source builds and changing license without preceding announcement, while previously using open source terminology for some feel-good free marketing leaves a bitter taste. Especially with so many companies doing this right now due to interest rates.

https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/43231

• livegrep

  10 1,895 5.5 C++

  Interactively grep source code. Source for http://livegrep.com/

  

If anyone's looking for an open-source search tool for grepping across repos (or even one large repo) at insane speed, I highly recommend livegrep:

https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep

Demo at https://livegrep.com/search/linux

We used it at Stripe and it was quite popular; often, searching even a single repo was faster on livegrep than with ripgrep locally.

A post reviewing it: https://www.alexdebrie.com/posts/faster-code-search-livegrep...

A post by its creator, nelhage, on its impact: https://blog.nelhage.com/post/reflections-on-performance/ and another on its architecture: https://blog.nelhage.com/2015/02/regular-expression-search-w...

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• zoekt

  4 497 9.0 Go

  Fast trigram based code search (by sourcegraph)

  

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

• opengrok

  11 4,225 9.1 Java

  OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine, written in Java

  

[4] is not really a usable 'product'. Livegrep (https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep) was inspired by it and is very usable.

[3] used to be a Google open source project as well, but it fell out of maintenance, and Sourcegraph took it over. It powers most of the basic regex/literal search in Sourcegraph.

Mozilla's code is searchable in Searchfox (https://searchfox.org/) which uses the indexer from Livegrep, combined with their own Git indexer and language-specific cross reference databases.

OpenGrok (https://github.com/oracle/opengrok) is also rather well known, but I have found it to have a slightly worse UI than alternatives.

• cs

  9 502 7.5 Go

  command line codespelunker or code search

I'll add something I have been working on https://github.com/boyter/cs which is aimed at a smaller scale. It works fine for multiple repositories so long as they aren't too large.

• sourcegraph-release-train

  1 29 5.9 Shell

  Sourcegraph Opensource build

License was changed almost 3 weeks ago, 5.1.0 release blog post skips this information. There's still no official announcement.

It seems like the author of Sourcegraph OSS containers announced that his release train is now dead

https://github.com/jensim/sourcegraph-release-train/

• dcs

  3 197 4.9 Go

  Debian Code Search (codesearch.debian.net) is a search engine that searches through all the 130 GB of open source software that is included in Debian. Supports regular expressions!

  

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

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• mozsearch

  17 235 8.9 Rust

  Mozilla code search website. (Please file bugs in bugzilla at https://mzl.la/2YtXmoN)

  

[4] is not really a usable 'product'. Livegrep (https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep) was inspired by it and is very usable.

[3] used to be a Google open source project as well, but it fell out of maintenance, and Sourcegraph took it over. It powers most of the basic regex/literal search in Sourcegraph.

Mozilla's code is searchable in Searchfox (https://searchfox.org/) which uses the indexer from Livegrep, combined with their own Git indexer and language-specific cross reference databases.

OpenGrok (https://github.com/oracle/opengrok) is also rather well known, but I have found it to have a slightly worse UI than alternatives.

• git-peek

  14 699 0.0 JavaScript

  git repo to local editor instantly

Yesterday I found out about git-peek (https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/git-peek). Instead of describing how satisfying it is to use, here is a GIF: https://imgur.com/a/cT8zAha

• repo

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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

• peek

  1 53 0.0 TypeScript

  1-click from git repo to local editor (by Jarred-Sumner)

# Example: git-peek://https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/peek

• hound

  10 5,571 4.9 JavaScript

  Lightning fast code searching made easy

  

There is also Hound [8].

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

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