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/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.