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Re:Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single r... by user5994461 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @11:02AM (#15891964)
Elasticsearch is too dumb. You need to use a parser and build a syntax tree to have a good representation of the code base. That's what facebook and google do on their java code.

Agree that any small to medium company could have a mono repo without special tooling. Yet they don't.

There are companies that care about development and there is the rest of the world.

Re:Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single r... by rpedela on Sunday December 10, 2017 @04:59PM (#15893709)
Github uses Elasticsearch [1]. I agree that ES is too dumb by default, however the analysis pipeline can be customized for searching source code.

1. https://www.elastic.co/use-cases/github