Re:Why Google stores billions of lines of code in a single r...
by rbbitbucket on Monday December 11, 2017 @02:50PM
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Bitbucket PM here. Thanks for the feedback!
Support for punctuation in search is something we knew wasn't ideal when we first added code search. As with all software, there were some technical constraints that made it hard to do.
We plan to have support for full stops and underscores in a future version and are exploring how to best handle more longer term. Our focus, based on feedback, is on "joining" punctuation character to better allow searching for tokens. Support for a full range of characters threatens to blow out index sizes, but if we get more feedback on specific use cases we're always happy to consider them.
Support for punctuation in search is something we knew wasn't ideal when we first added code search. As with all software, there were some technical constraints that made it hard to do.
We plan to have support for full stops and underscores in a future version and are exploring how to best handle more longer term. Our focus, based on feedback, is on "joining" punctuation character to better allow searching for tokens. Support for a full range of characters threatens to blow out index sizes, but if we get more feedback on specific use cases we're always happy to consider them.