Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expressions

Re:Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expres... by glouwbug on Sunday February 23, 2020 @09:52AM (#22397060)

Amazin, why Microsoft hasn't built this for GitHub yet is beyond me.

Can it grep on individual repos?

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Re:Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expres... by hcm on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:46PM (#22400966)

I built https://grephub.com for that. It doesn’t maintain an index so it’s not super snappy, but it’s good enough / better than you’d expect in many cases!

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Re:Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expres... by funklute on Sunday February 23, 2020 @12:05PM (#22397965)

Why would you want to use this tool to grep individual repos? If you know the repo you're interested in, you can just clone it and then grep it locally...?

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Re:Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expres... by m3kw9 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @01:25PM (#22398529)

So you don’t have to clone it and grep it locally

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Re:Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expres... by tehlike on Sunday February 23, 2020 @02:22PM (#22398896)

I like to grep a code pattern through out all repos. I use gstreamer, and sometimes i just don't know how to use it to do a specific thing. So i search substrings to find out usage patterns by other people.

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Re:Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expres... by big_chungus on Sunday February 23, 2020 @01:50PM (#22398702)

Some things can take a while to clone. On the top end, repos like blink, webkit, and gecko can take half an hour or more.

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Re:Show HN: Search code in GitHub repos using regular expres... by leni536 on Sunday February 23, 2020 @03:28PM (#22399322)

Even with --depth=1?

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