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Comment by thejosh

4 days ago

I would love to use something that isn't GitHub for code hosting.

Codeberg sounds great, but from using it day-to-day, it's really slow sometimes, and frequently times out (from Perth, AU, if it matters). This is not just the SSH protocol for git pushes, but also for browsing.

(I do have a self-hosted forgejo (came from gitea), it's great, Postgres database backs up, files are easy to backup, it's also git so I can just mirror it elsewhere as well.). I love their self-hosted runners is super simple to host.

Bit random, but for code search, does anyone have any recommendations?

My current process is to just `git clone <REPO>` onto my server, then use ripgrep (Can't beat good ol' plain text search).

The result is that this is hundreds of GB -- I like to clone everything I use, dependencies etc, to then be able to look at source code. (I use quite a few languages/ecosystems, and sometimes reading the source code is the best way to figure something out).

I've tried Sourcebot (just for the code search, I don't care about "MCP"/"AI") etc, but was wondering if anyone has recommendations.

GitHubs code search is great, but it doesn't find everything, and it is also incredibly rate limited (annoying when trying to narrow something down, and you then get rate limited). I use this when trying to figure out random Apple issues - someone somewhere has figured it out usually.

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boyter  4 days ago

Tooting my own horn here for search but give https://github.com/boyter/cs a go. You can have a http server up if you like (even modify the templates) and have it sync your repos for you on a schedule you define.

Let me know if it fails in some area and I’ll fix it.

qweqwe14  4 days ago

You can just self-host GitLab CE and use self-hosted ElasticSearch integration to set up code search. I really don't understand the point of Forgejo, sounds like making your life harder

  • thejosh  4 days ago

    For the forgejo side of things, this is for my own projects. Not hosting others (or for their code search, this was for mine).

    For context, forgejo does have [code search](https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/search/code-search/), which is simple to enough.

    I like forgejo/gitea - a single app.ini, postgres for the database. Done through a docker compose.

    Last time I ran gitlab, it required oodles of memory - it's just me!

    > You can just self-host GitLab CE and use self-hosted ElasticSearch integration to set up code search. I really don't understand the point of Forgejo, sounds like making your life harder

    Sounds like more steps/maintenance/hassle and a more complicated than just using forgejo for my own personal projects, forgejo uses <120MB of memory for me, has runners, etc.

    • qweqwe14  4 days ago

      That's all good until you discover that Forgejo is very barebones compared to GitLab, and you inevitably end up recreating GitLab featureset by using some scripts/addons from random people and pray it doesn't shit itself

      Isn't it better to invest your time in setting up GitLab once and not have to deal with Forgejo being a toy project?

      It literally takes 1 compose.yaml to self-host GitLab Omnibus, and 1 compose.yaml for the runner. You have been misled by suckless fans if you think that self-hosting GitLab is more complex than Forgejo.

      > Last time I ran gitlab, it required oodles of memory - it's just me!

      It requires what, 8GB of RAM? That's not "oodles" by any definition.

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