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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by blt on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:37PM (#17221741)
It is shockingly bad. The fact that you can't code search in a fork blows my mind. How have they not fixed this basic, important feature after so many years? What could possibly make it more difficult than a few person-months of effort?
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by brazzledazzle on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:21PM (#17222196)
Maybe avoiding the costs associated with keeping the indexes available for every fork? I believe they use elastic search so maybe someone with more experience with that can comment.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by knownothing on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:03PM (#17223942)
Um, have you actually tried doing anything about this? https://help.github.com/articles/searching-in-forks/
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by blt on Sunday June 03, 2018 @10:21PM (#17224045)
> You will not be able to search the code in a fork that has less stars than its parent.

... but since it's allowed if the fork has more stars, I guess they're just trying to save compute cost. Seems like a bad place to scrimp to me.

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