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Comment by ezekg

8 years ago

Their search is really frustrating, I agree. I feel like they only index a small percentage of files, so results are always bad.

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brazzledazzle  8 years ago

They don’t index forks. Cloning a fork just to search through it locally is always fun. Very annoying when a fork becomes the de facto project because it’s the one being maintained.

  • ezekg  8 years ago

    I’m not even talking forks. I’m talking largish projects hosted on GitHub (100k+ loc). The actual results will contain less than half the results you’d see with grep, and even then the indexed content may even be out of date. This is exacerbated even more when database migrations are kept in source control, with older migrations archived, and the only search results you get for eg a stored proc search will be a version of the sp from 6 months ago.