In my experience it's great for: 1. When your code is too big for your IDE's built in global search. 2. When you want to share searches with others. #2 is gr

In my experience it's great for: 1. When your code is too big for your IDE's built in global search. 2. When you want to share searches with others. #2 is great for design docs. You can say "<link> shows the bug is common in API usages" or "<link> shows x% of our files do this" Edit 3. When something does go wrong. > If I need to replace or find something across all repos in my organisation, or god forbid, Github, then something went extremely wrong architecturally. If your plan B for messing something up is to not have a plan B you're going to have a bad time when plan A fails :) Unfortunately, hope is not a strategy.