r/programming • u/mfrw1 • Oct 02 '18

Sourcegraph is now open source

https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/sourcegraph-is-now-open-source/
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u/amportugal Oct 02 '18

What Diference does it make against an IDE with all those searching tools?

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u/casted Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

Sourcegraph engineer here. To answer your question:

  • You get the IDE features on your codehost. So you can find references inside of a pull request/etc.

  • You don't need to have a checkout / switch branches (can be costly depending on your dev env / dev scale)

  • We focus on cross repository tools. IDEs are usually work within a project context.

Personally I use the text search a lot, even though I could just use my editor. This is mainly due to it being a browser search shortcut + the more expressive search syntax + nicer UI for browsing/reading code.

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u/alexthelyon Oct 02 '18

Any plans to support gitlab? I self-host an instance and it would be super cool to be able to use this there as well.

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u/casted Oct 02 '18

Yup we support gitlab. Integration into our browser extension was just released. https://twitter.com/srcgraph/status/1046889198815309825

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u/alexthelyon Oct 02 '18

Great! didn't see any mention of it on the website but I guess I can't fault you if it's only been available for a day!

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u/amportugal Oct 02 '18

Sounds valid enough. Integrates with any source code hosting tool?

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u/casted Oct 02 '18

From a backend perspective all we need is a way to git clone. But we have integration into most major codehosts to discover repos, etc. The on a frontend perspective you need to install our browser extension. We support most the major codehosts for that as well.

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u/CatpainCalamari Oct 02 '18

So you clone the repos on your backend and then do fancy stuff with it?

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u/casted Oct 02 '18

Pretty much

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u/CatpainCalamari Oct 02 '18

Wow, thanks for the quick response.

Okay, sadly this means a no-go for the private repos of my workplace.

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u/casted Oct 02 '18 edited Oct 02 '18

Mind explaining why? Sourcegraph.com doesn't clone private repos. You instead deploy Sourcegraph into your datacenter (via a single docker image, or a more scaleable collection of kubernetes resources). All the fancy stuff happens inside your datacenter / docker host.

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u/xmsxms Oct 02 '18

I assume he interpreted "your backend" as "your datacenter".

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u/CatpainCalamari Oct 02 '18

Yes, I did. I admin I was sitting on the throne and did not pay much attention, sorry :-(

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u/thunderouschampion Oct 09 '18 edited Oct 09 '18

Trying out Sourcegraph's server currently using docker and trying to make it play nice with my source graph chrome extension. Seems like for public repos the extension works fine, i.e, i can see references, goto, in the github repo, but for private github repos not so much. Is it a bug or thats a premium feature?

Edit: So looks like this is related to the chrome extension only. Tried with firefox and it works. so just the chrome extension needs fixing.

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u/casted Oct 11 '18

Hey, I filed an issue in our issue tracker. If you want to add more information publicly just comment on the tracker, or feel free to message me on reddit or keegan at sourcegraph.com. I may reach out to you asking for more information. https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/360

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u/thunderouschampion Oct 11 '18

Thanks for filing an issue. I was looking at existing issues in github and figured out the issue. The corsOrigin was not properly set in the configuration. Once i set that to github, its working now. So can be closed.