Searching through your code just got easier in GitHub

Date:
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 15:46:05 +0000

Description:
New-and-improved Github earch engine is currently available in preview

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GitHub has announced major updates to its search engine as it looks to help users save time and stay focused on their work at hand.

For starters, the search engine will now come with a separate interface, but once the work is complete and the product is ready for wider adoption, it
will be integrated into the main github.com experience, it was said.

Not all GitHub repositories can be searched through the new engine, but its not a tiny database, either. More than five million public repositories can
be searched, including highly popular ones, as well as all public
repositories of users in the technology preview. GitHub benefits

Users can also search their own private repositories in the technology preview, as well.

Explaining the changes in a blog post , GitHubs Pavel Avgustinov said finding good results will be easier, as devs will be able to search for an exact string, with support for substring matches and special characters. Theyll
also be able to use regular expressions (enclosed in / separators).

Search can also be refined through filters like language:, path:, extension:, and Boolean operators (OR, NOT). Search for definitions of a symbol with symbol: has also been made possible.

The new-and-improved search engine is currently available in preview, with an initial goal looking to get the communitys feedback and help.

Anyone looking to participate should first sign up for the waitlist here . After that, when the technology preview becomes enabled in the account, they can go to https://cs.github.com and try it out.

Going forward, GitHub will seek to include every public repository, and grow the list of supported languages. Search capabilities will also be improved with scoring and ranking heuristics, while the team will further experiment with APIs and integrations, to see which ones would be most impactful. You might also want to check out our list of the best laptops for developers today



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