Sep 1, 2010 · At GitHub Universe last year, we announced a total redesign of GitHub's code search and navigation experience, powered by our all-new code search engine that we built from scratch.

I can search exact matches from Google by using quotes like "system <<-". How can I do the same thing for GitHub?

Aug 12, 2020 · True. Commit messages and source code are different things, but the limitation I was pointing to is the same: GitHub's web search relies on an index built for a single reference by default …

Sep 11, 2024 · I'm trying to use the github api for searching code given keywords. I have 3 usecases, where I need to search within a repo within a org across all of github There's two ways to do that, …

You can do a code search without specifying a user/org/repo if you authenticate. First, generate a personal access token for use for this purpose, from your Profile on GitHub's website: Settings -> …

So in general the github code search is a bit of a mystery . I really want to find certain code snippets .. either on master or another branch .. is there a way to do this??

ran into this; useless code search! I need to find all instances of :ok and :locked in a Ruby on Rails codebase. Github's crappy search doesn't allow this.

Aug 7, 2024 · For your first issue, GitHub web search and Search Code API rely on different "engines", so the total counts returned can often be different. According to this reply from GitHub's staff to a …

Mar 14, 2016 · Original answer (February 2013) I didn't find any " repo:current " or other convention that would specify the default repo for a "Code" search. I usually do my search in a separate windows, …

Mar 19, 2015 · To find all your comments in the issues of any project on GitHub, you can use the GitHub search functionality with a specific query. In the search bar at the top, enter the following query: …