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by fireattack 1871 days ago
Semi-related, but is GitHub's search by programming language feature broken on this repo?

I'm curious about "FreeMarker" being the top language so I clicked on it, surprisingly it returns zero code: https://github.com/timvisee/send/search?l=freemarker

So does "javascript": https://github.com/timvisee/send/search?l=javascript
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emi2k01 1871 days ago
Search is disabled for forked repositories in github. It's better to create a new repo and push the code if you want a fork.

Search in original repo works: https://github.com/mozilla/send/search?l=javascript

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circularfoyers 1871 days ago
The other option too would be just to clone the repo locally and use grep, find, etc. That seems the simpler option if you just want to perform a search.
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bakje 1871 days ago
Or open the repo in github1s so you don't have to clone anything: https://github1s.com/timvisee/send/

For more info see: https://github.com/conwnet/github1s

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