Can no longer search code without being logged in. · community · Discussion #77046
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Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body This is revolting and an anathema to the open source movement. A movement, I might add, Microsoft is abusing here. We're told that this is for security... Bu...

Edit:

Since theres been some confusion with dates

In 2016 github made site side searching login only and hid the search bar if you werent logged in. This didnt include searching within a repository so that could still be done, just not all repositories

This year was the change being referred to in this link which made repository level searching require logging in

Blog post: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires-login/

  • @minorninth
    6•7 months ago

    Can you elaborate on what happened when you tried to search? I’ve never had trouble.

    • @SpaceNoodle
      4•7 months ago

      GitHub search simply won’t find search terms that I know are there (because I can grep them in my local repo). It also fails to search all branches. There’s also insufficient filtering for filetypes or paths.

      Maybe I’m just spoiled from having used OpenGrok, as well as knowing how to use basic tools like find and grep, all of which I find substantially more useful.