roadrunner_ex@lemmy.ca to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 17 days agoThe technology behind GitHub’s new code searchgithub.blogexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up150arrow-down14
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minus-squarePushButton@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25arrow-down2·17 days agoThe new technology is: show a message saying “Whoaa! You have busted your limit!” on every search. I didn’t do a search for 6 months, but whhooaaa! Calm down with your searches!
minus-squareundefined@links.hackliberty.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up12·17 days agoI always found the code search more distracting than helpful. Just let me use the browser native Command + F ffs.
minus-squareRonSijm@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·14 days agoThat doesn’t really work all the time, because large files or large commits are lazy loaded on scroll, so what you’re searching might not have loaded yet The code search does a server side search
minus-squareundefined@links.hackliberty.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 days agoI’m usually using it not to search the codebase but to search for something specific with a file.
minus-squareVenat0r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·14 days agoI think it’s referring to when you’re searching the entire code base(s), as opposed to individual pull requests.
The new technology is: show a message saying “Whoaa! You have busted your limit!” on every search.
I didn’t do a search for 6 months, but whhooaaa! Calm down with your searches!
I always found the code search more distracting than helpful. Just let me use the browser native Command + F ffs.
That doesn’t really work all the time, because large files or large commits are lazy loaded on scroll, so what you’re searching might not have loaded yet
The code search does a server side search
I’m usually using it not to search the codebase but to search for something specific with a file.
I think it’s referring to when you’re searching the entire code base(s), as opposed to individual pull requests.