On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 05:24:46PM +0000, James Waples wrote:
> Github has a pretty good code search and viewer. Is there something
> fundamentally missing from it that the current system has? I don't use it a
> great deal so there may be areas lacking in functionality.
Here's what Andy said a few posts up the thread:
github search simply ignores many characters so a search for object.property
becomes a search for object and/or property.
For instance, compare the result of searching for "s.poll" in github and gitweb:
http://git.linuxcnc.org/gitweb?p=linuxcnc.git&a=search&st=grep&s=s.poll
https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/search?q=s.poll
github docs[1] state
You can't use the following wildcard characters as part of your
search query: . , : ; / \ ` ' " = * ! ? # $ & + ^ | ~ < > ( ) {
} [ ]. The search will simply ignore these symbols.
which is actually not great for searching code. Simple for them to
code, I imagine. There's a two year old issue asking for it to be
improved[2].
gitweb help warns:
On large trees, this search can take a while and put some strain on
the server, so please use it with some consideration
but I don't think this has caused us trouble in practice.
Jeff
[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/
[2]: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/402
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