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GitHub is most aweful search that I have regularly used. It doesn’t even have basic dedup capability, forget about any thing slightly less basic like limiting s

GitHub is most aweful search that I have regularly used. It doesn’t even have basic dedup capability, forget about any thing slightly less basic like limiting search to file names. And it’s not that it is hard to derank potential dedups given that they already know the fork graphs. I have spent good chunk of my productivity manually sweeping through pages upon pages of exact same search results to find the snippets I was looking for and hating creator(s) of this functionality from the bottom of my heart. These people shouldn’t be allowed to build any search again without a mandatory year long rehabilitation training camp (unless they are doing this for enemy states during war times).

_asummers 8y ago
How about finding multiple hits per file? Tell me how many matches there are in each file, PLEASE. I should not have to click into the match to know there's more than one match in that file. I shouls also be able to have a view that shows me every match (a la grep/ag). If I need to search, I pull down the repo, index it quickly with ag and do the search. That's really unacceptable, in my eyes, when the basic search is there already.