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This worries me. At least monthly, I will find a repository that is 5ish years old that is attacking some problem I'm dealing with. I may not interact with it,

This worries me. At least monthly, I will find a repository that is 5ish years old that is attacking some problem I'm dealing with. I may not interact with it, but I review the code and learn a lot. I guess Google will still index dormant repos.

that_guy_iain 6y ago
I think this is just for the code and not the descriptions and names. But just thinking that will probably include the readme which has all the important information.
- xmprt 6y ago
  Often times I search through the code once I find the repo after searching by name. So I still would like the code to be indexed in that case.
kevin_thibedeau 6y ago
Check it out and index it locally with tools like these: https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=codeidx https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=codeidx https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
- nirav72 6y ago
  Only useful if you already know about a repo.
reader_1000 6y ago
> I guess Google will still index dormant repos. Github's search is inferior compared to google's site search for github (i.e keyword site:github.com). I don't know why but Github search almost useless if the thing you are searching for is not a exact match. For example I tried just one random search. Search keyword: HashMapBoxing https://github.com/google/guava/search?q=HashMapBoxing https://github.com/google/guava/search?q=HashMapBoxing No results for me, however here is one that contains word IdentityHashMapBoxing https://github.com/google/guava/blob/master/guava-tests/test/com/google/common/collect/AbstractBiMapTest.java#L31 https://github.com/google/guava/blob/master/guava-tests/test... So I almost stopped using it. Either I use google search or I just clone the repo and use my IDE. Edit: Ok, this search also fails with Google search, but still :)

that_guy_iain 6y ago

I think this is just for the code and not the descriptions and names. But just thinking that will probably include the readme which has all the important information.

xmprt 6y ago
Often times I search through the code once I find the repo after searching by name. So I still would like the code to be indexed in that case.

kevin_thibedeau 6y ago

Check it out and index it locally with tools like these: https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=codeidx https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=codeidx https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

nirav72 6y ago
Only useful if you already know about a repo.

reader_1000 6y ago

> I guess Google will still index dormant repos. Github's search is inferior compared to google's site search for github (i.e keyword site:github.com). I don't know why but Github search almost useless if the thing you are searching for is not a exact match. For example I tried just one random search. Search keyword: HashMapBoxing https://github.com/google/guava/search?q=HashMapBoxing https://github.com/google/guava/search?q=HashMapBoxing No results for me, however here is one that contains word IdentityHashMapBoxing https://github.com/google/guava/blob/master/guava-tests/test/com/google/common/collect/AbstractBiMapTest.java#L31 https://github.com/google/guava/blob/master/guava-tests/test... So I almost stopped using it. Either I use google search or I just clone the repo and use my IDE. Edit: Ok, this search also fails with Google search, but still :)