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by psychometry 2830 days ago
You also can't search a forked repository, which is pathetic.
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This limitation is especially frustrating when a fork becomes the "primary" repo for a project for some reason. It's probably not a common occurrence overall, but I've run into it at least a couple of times.

A good example is that GitHub's own repo for their CommonMark implementation isn't searchable, because it's a fork of cmark: https://github.com/github/cmark/