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Hello from the GitHub code search team! I'm really proud of this release. It's the result of a year of hard work from multiple teams to bring the custom code se
by 100k 4y ago
Hello from the GitHub code search team! I'm really proud of this release. It's the result of a year of hard work from multiple teams to bring the custom code search engine we built for cs.github.com to github.com. In the background, we've also spent a lot of time since the launch rebuilding the index format to let us scale up the system.
My colleague Tim Clem will be speaking at GitHub Universe today about some of technical details: https://githubuniverse.com/events/detail/virtual-schedule/49426c3f-89ed-477d-b6e1-ab08ee201aca https://githubuniverse.com/events/detail/virtual-schedule/49...
- anonymoushn 4y agoCan you search for special characters, and are large files indexed?
- 100k 4y agoAll characters are indexed (UTF-8 only). Files larger than 350 KiB are currently excluded, though we welcome feedback on use cases that require larger files to be indexed.
- schroeding 4y agoA few weeks earlier and I could have not be forced to hack together a tool to search for specific repos in specific languages that contain certain code-snippets by scraping the existing search API for a week. :P Joking aside though, looks really great, thank you so much! :D
- sytelus 4y agoLast time when I heard this, the GitHub search was the shittiest search ever I came across. It didn't had even basic dedup. You search for something and there will be 10 pages of results with exact same code from thousand forks. The intern guy who worked on it claimed he had used "AI" however.
- sytelus 4y agoLooks as non-promising as before: https://cs.github.com/?scopeName=All+repos&scope=&q=gpt2+training https://cs.github.com/?scopeName=All+repos&scope=&q=gpt2+tra...
- jdorfman 4y agoCongrats on the launch Luke =)
- pjot 4y agoI’ve been in the beta (I guess the alpha) for a little over a year now. It’s absolutely fantastic and has been great to understand, discover, and learn new code. Great work!
- IshKebab 4y agoDoes this have any relation to https://grep.app/ https://grep.app/ ?
- 100k 4y agoNo, it is a custom-built search engine for code. grep.app is great, though.