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by softwarebeware 1347 days ago
Someone help me understand what I'm missing. It sounds like in this article Steve Yegge is describing a tool like Atlassian Fisheye or grepcode and talking about it like it doesn't exist. These tools are out there. I don't see what's missing.
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rfoo 1347 days ago
I've never tried grepcode before it's gone (not a Java guy), but what I miss most is precise reverse search, i.e. "find all reference", instead of "go to definition". For example, try Chromium code search:

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:v8/...

Click on the "ToBoolean" function, it brings up all call sites across all Chromium projects.

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beyang 1347 days ago
We have that! https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/blob/src/net/...

* Works cross-repositories, over our indexed corpus of 6M OSS repositories, or your private code * Multi-language (some projects at compiler accuracy, some at CTAGS-level accuracy)

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beyang 1347 days ago
Sourcegraph : FishEye :: Google + Chrome : Alta Vista + IE5
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prepend 1347 days ago
But what is its relationship to Google + IE5?
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