[HiJon89]

Seems like this is in the works already, but the boolean operators in OpenGrok are so intuitive and powerful. I use them every single day and the lack of support in Sourcegraph immediately disqualified it for us. For example yesterday I was looking for Dropwizard Managed classes not annotated with @Singleton so I did:

Managed && !"@Singleton"

(I'm omitting the fully-qualified class name for brevity)

If I also wanted to look for HealthCheck classes I could update the query to:

(Managed || HealthCheck) && !"@Singleton"

I think it also helps that OpenGrok has a separate input for filtering file paths (completely splitting the "where" and the "what" parts of the query). And this file path search supports the same boolean operators. So if I want to narrow my search to two particular repositories I could put CrmSearch || AutomationPlatform into the File Path input. And because this input only handles file paths, I don't need to remember any special syntax. Whereas if you clump the entire query into a single input, then users need a way to tell you whether a search term applies to file paths or file contents.

[rvttt]

Engineer at Sourcegraph here. Adding boolean operators is a priority on our roadmap, and expected to go live between May and July this year. On separate inputs: definitely something we've also identified and are actively working on. One recent experimental addition is "Interactive mode" that lets you enter patterns separately for repos, files, and patterns, and so on. There's a dropdown next to the query bar to try it out--there are some kinks, and we're currently working on making this a polished feature. Thanks for the feedback, and stay tuned!

[HiJon89]

Awesome, thanks for the response. Looking forward to trying out Sourcegraph again