Improving GitHub Code Search

• mozsearch

  7 131 8.0 Rust

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

  

  DXR has largely been replaced with mozsearch (https://github.com/mozsearch/mozsearch), and a quick glance through the really early history does show that it adopted a fair amount of stuff from DXR. The downside is that it's not as easy to set up a local mozsearch instance as old-school DXR was.

• sourcegraph

  27 6,095 10.0 Go

  Universal code search (self-hosted)

  

  We built Sourcegraph taking inspiration from Google Code Search (https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/ex-googler-guide-dev-tool...) to bring the power of code search—and precise code intelligence that just works—to every dev. Try it out here: https://sourcegraph.com. A super common thing we see is people leaving Google, missing code search, and then bringing Sourcegraph into their new org. We'd love to hear your feedback!

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• zoekt

  4 1,489 3.5 Go

  Fast trigram based code search

  

  Given the shoutouts to Burntsushi and Lemire this is almost certainly a bitmap trigram index based engine similar to https://github.com/google/zoekt

  The index is likely based on Roaring bitmaps, presumably https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/roaring-rs in this case.

  Nice architecture, exactly how I would have done it also.

• feedback

  87 2,677 6.5

  Public feedback discussions for: GitHub for Mobile, GitHub Discussions, GitHub Codespaces, GitHub Sponsors, GitHub Issues and more!

  

  Hi zxienin. I'm a GitHub product manager. May I assume the GitHub instances you're describing are GitHub Enterprise Server instances? We plan to bring advanced code search features to all GitHub plans including Enterprise Server once we've stabilized the UX and feature set. But it sounds like your situation goes beyond that, where the search needs to include code from Git repositories outside of GitHub Enterprise Server. That makes good sense, and we'll definitely consider it. If you want to keep in touch about it, please feel free to post in our feedback forum: https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/co.... Thank you!

• gitlab

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  There is a way to search for comments using the "global search", but no way to search for text over issues and their comments. In particular, no way to search from the issue tab, no way to search over comments only in issues (or only in merge requests), no way to combine a text search with label/milestone/status and have it work with comments, etc.

  So it's a workaround, but a bad one.

  Here's the ticket (2015); https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/13891

• hoogle

  27 612 5.8 Haskell

  Haskell API search engine

• codesearch

  6 2,987 0.0 Go

  Fast, indexed regexp search over large file trees

  

  There is some older version that's open source, I haven't tried it and I don't know how much of today's code search is based on it.

  https://github.com/google/codesearch

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• bar

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  The best thing about the Sourcegraph instance hosted on sourcegraph.com is that you can edit the URL in your browser from https://github.com/foo/bar to https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/foo/bar to be dropped down into a Sourcegraph search for that GH repo. I've been using it for a long time because of this convenience.

  (Though it would be even better if the two options for case-sensitivity and regex search were enabled by default instead of needing me to toggle them on every time.)

• opengrok

  4 3,584 9.5 Java

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

  

  My job uses https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/ and I'm generally happy with it. It has some problems with special character searches at times but generally does what I want. It's certainly better than code search in our on-prem github instance.

• roaring-rs

  7 448 9.2 Rust

  A better compressed bitset in Rust

  

  Given the shoutouts to Burntsushi and Lemire this is almost certainly a bitmap trigram index based engine similar to https://github.com/google/zoekt

  The index is likely based on Roaring bitmaps, presumably https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/roaring-rs in this case.

  Nice architecture, exactly how I would have done it also.

• chrono

  8 1,962 8.2 Rust

  Date and time library for Rust (by chronotope)

  

  Hah, reminds me of this issue where 90% of the content is spam: https://github.com/chronotope/chrono/issues/499

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