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Amazin, why Microsoft hasn't built this for GitHub yet is beyond me. Can it grep on individual repos?
by glouwbug 7y ago
Amazin, why Microsoft hasn't built this for GitHub yet is beyond me.
Can it grep on individual repos?
- funklute 7y agoWhy would you want to use this tool to grep individual repos? If you know the repo you're interested in, you can just clone it and then grep it locally...?
- m3kw9 7y agoSo you don’t have to clone it and grep it locally
- big_chungus 7y agoSome things can take a while to clone. On the top end, repos like blink, webkit, and gecko can take half an hour or more.
- leni536 7y agoEven with --depth=1?
- tehlike 7y agoI like to grep a code pattern through out all repos. I use gstreamer, and sometimes i just don't know how to use it to do a specific thing. So i search substrings to find out usage patterns by other people.
- hcm 7y agoI built https://grephub.com https://grephub.com for that. It doesn’t maintain an index so it’s not super snappy, but it’s good enough / better than you’d expect in many cases!