Code search

Search code across all your repositories and code hosts

A recently published research paper from Google and a Google developer survey showed that 98% of developers consider their Sourcegraph-like internal code search tool to be critical, and developers use it on average for 5.3 sessions each day, primarily to (in order of frequency):

• find example code
• explore/read code
• debug issues
• determine the impact of changes

Sourcegraph code search helps developers perform these tasks more quickly and effectively by providing fast, advanced code search across multiple repositories.

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Getting started

Explanations

• Search features
  • Use regular expressions and exact queries to perform full-text searches.
  • Perform language-aware structural search on code structure.
  • Search any branch and commit, with no indexing required.
  • Search commit diffs and commit messages to see how code has changed.
  • Narrow your search by repository and file pattern.
  • How our Smart Search query assistant works.
  • Use search contexts to search across a set of repositories at specific revisions.
  • Curate saved searches for yourself or your org.
  • Use code monitoring to set up notifications for code changes that match a query.
  • View language statistics for search results.
• Search details
• Search tips

How-tos

• Switch from Oracle OpenGrok to Sourcegraph
• Create a saved search
• Create a custom search snippet
• Using and creating search contexts
• Exhaustive search
• How to create a search context with the GraphQL API

Tutorials

• Useful search examples

References

• Search query syntax
• Sourcegraph search query language
• Structural search reference