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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by dom96 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @05:57PM (#17222499)
I cannot agree more with this.

It boggles my mind why GitHub's search finds results across various commits, giving patchy results. It would be far better and likely easier for GitHub to just search HEAD. This frustrates me about GitHub every day.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by sb8244 on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:02PM (#17222535)
Huh.... GitHub only searches head for me. This is confusing as I've often wanted to search other branches and can't find a way to...
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