ballenf on Changes to Code Search Indexing

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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, but I review the code and learn a lot.

I guess Google will still index dormant repos.

kevin_thibedeau 5y

Check it out and index it locally with tools like these:

https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=codeidx

https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

nirav72 5y

Only useful if you already know about a repo.

reader_1000 5y

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

No results for me, however here is one that contains word IdentityHashMapBoxing 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 5y

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 5y

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.

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