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by weinzierl 519 days ago
I, for my part, would be happy if they could make basic search work for a start. Will the advanced search finally allow us to find the most basic things reliably?
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What doesn't work?
If you search code for a string you know is there it is completely git or miss if it is found. Always has been like that.

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35144250

I assumed you were talking about issue search, since that's what the thread is about.
Oh yeah, where on the Internet does this work reliably?please don’t say gitlab
Sourcegraph.
grep -rli search_this some-repo # (or use rg if you prefer)
Holy shit what a good idea why doesn’t GitHub just let you use ripgrep?!?!?
Too expensive I assume.
Sorting code search results by date.