GitHub adds code search

http://github.com/blog/202-github-code-search

by schacon • 18 years ago

42 19 18 years ago

Github added a new feature to search through all of their public source code.

henning• 18 years ago

Are there disclosure guidelines on Hacker News? The submitter is on the GitHub team, IIRC, but it doesn't say that in the submission title or in his profile.

Edit: changed from "What are the..." to "Are there"

ashu• 18 years ago

None, AFAIK. And I don't see a desperate need for any, either. The submission will get voted up on its merits regardless of who submitted it.

jhancock• 18 years ago

wow! There exist rules for not posting something that is already public? Or rules for filling out a more complete profile? I would guess if someone wanted to keep something a secret then making it so every search engine in the world wouldn't crawl it would be job 1.

I don't recall being asked to read such rules when I signed up for HN. But I'm happy to learn them if they exist.

schacon2• 18 years ago

that might make for a long title. i would be happy to add that to the description, but i'm just submitting it as a news item, not providing opinion.

cstejerean• 18 years ago

no need to provide any extra information, it really doesn't matter who submits something, but any reason you wouldn't mention github in your profile? sometimes i like checking out profiles to see what people are working on.

charlesju• 18 years ago

Thank you! This is why I'm so happy to send real money to this service.

axod• 18 years ago

More RSS icon size! Bigger!

compay• 18 years ago

I have to agree, I love Github but that feed icon is extremely annoying.

mct• 18 years ago

The search feature also seems to be somewhat fuzzy, which rocks. Searching for "isnumeric language:c" returns hits for "is_numeric", "isnumeral", etc. Very nice!

My only minor complaint is that the search results page is sometimes displaying the wrong highlighted excerpts of matched files. For example, using the above search, I see highlighted text for things like the "(c)" in a copyright notice, or an emacs "Mode: C" hint. Because it's only displaying the first highlighted region per-file, it's hard to use the results page to see which hit I want to drill down into.

samwillis• 18 years ago

They don't escape the query text field - XSS.

http://github.com/codesearch?q=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22Oops%22)%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cspan%20%22&repo=&langOverride=&language=&x=0&y=0

defunkt• 18 years ago

Thanks, fixed.

cosmo7• 18 years ago

Would be more impressive if the pagination worked too.

Do you test any of this?

Locke• 18 years ago

Very nice. It'd be nice to see a little better relevance. For example, I searched for "game" then drilled down to one of my projects which was listed in the side bar. Towards the bottom of the results was a hit from "game.rb"... it seems like a hit from a file who's name includes the search term might be more relevant than that.

Or, perhaps a hit like "class Game" should be considered more relevant than "attr_reader :game". Perhaps.

Overall, very nice though.

jmatt• 18 years ago

How about tags for gists?

That would make it quite a bit easier to find a specific algorithm or code snippet.

orib• 18 years ago

http://codesearch.google.com

maryam3• 18 years ago

getcpuinfo

maryam3• 18 years ago

get cpu info

maryam3• 18 years ago

paint program

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