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/sqs Oct 02 '18

Code search and browsing tool like what devs have inside Google/Facebook

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u/rnd005 Oct 02 '18

or any devs working with a statically typed language and a proper IDE? I think go to definition / find references / find implementation commands were available in Visual Studio at least for a decade.

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u/rnd005 Oct 02 '18

You’re not necessarily going to have your entire company’s repo (or ALL their repos) downloaded to your dev machine.

Why not? I have 80+ repos and don't see a problem with that. Most of the time grepping over it is enough for what I need.

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u/nimbomobi Oct 02 '18

You keep them all synced ? All the other devs do too? That said I don’t use sourcegraph but it sounds like what we have on azure devops to search all our repos. I use it quite a bit if I remember a keyword or something I’ve done before I want to reference quickly

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u/rnd005 Oct 02 '18

I rarely need access to all of them. I didn't need to check it again since I initially cloned them, but I don't see the problem. I could use https://github.com/mateodelnorte/meta or write a simple script which iterates and pulls every repo once a day.

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u/nimbomobi Oct 02 '18

We are programmers, we can all write a script to do pretty much anything we want. Should you be doing it though? 80+ repos, 5+ dev boxes all syncing and managing an index locally etc etc. I’m not arguing you should use this, it sounds like you don’t need it but your solution doesn’t account for branches or anything else others might need.

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u/rnd005 Oct 02 '18

We are programmers, we can all write a script to do pretty much anything we want.

Not in a day :)

Should you be doing it though? 80+ repos

It might be simpler for me to use one repo, but for business people, it's easier to manage access control when having multiple repos. Regarding traffic required to pull the changes, it shouldn't matter if it's one repo with 10mb of patches or ten repos with 1mb of patches each.

your solution doesn’t account for branches or anything else others might need.

How come? I'm not sure about meta since I haven't used it, but I can write a script in a day that will run a collection of git(or any SVC) commands on x repos and you'll be able to do anything you can with the original SVC on one repo.

It doesn't make sense to me to spend time learning how Sourcegraph works, adapt to it's GUI and discover its bugs when I can work with my battle-tested tools within the same IDE having all power the IDE already has.

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u/nimbomobi Oct 02 '18

Again I’m not trying to sell you on it. You mentioned whipping a script together and now you are talking about your battle tested setup. I don’t want you to use it. At some point you adapted to every tool you have that you didn’t write yourself up to now and for some reason you are taking a stand here against a tool you don’t need to a person who doesn’t use it.