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I'm happy that at last, my Stack Overflow question and answer have been fully solved with technology improvements! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43891605
by j1elo 3y ago
I'm happy that at last, my Stack Overflow question and answer have been fully solved with technology improvements!
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43891605/search-partial-words-in-github-organizations-code/43911827 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43891605/search-partial-...
It's been almost 6 years, though... for a search scenario that would be trivial to implement with grep (at scale that's another thing...) Still, a nice example of perfect being the enemy of good, I guess.
- 100k 3y agoThanks for your patience! It has been a long road with some dead ends (we've wanted to add this since 2012 at least). We actually wrote about why we didn't just use grep in our last blog post: https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs-new-code-search/ https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...
- RulerOf 3y agoI really enjoyed that blog post. Especially the comparisons that lay out how feasible it can actually be to do the stupid, simple thing of "grep the whole data set every time" up to a surprising point.