Code search guide

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Sections

  • Overview
  • How it’s used
    • Understanding code and dev onboarding
    • Code reuse
    • Finding/fixing vulns
    • Incident response
  • Where it’s used
    • Google
    • Facebook
    • Brave
    • Chromium & Android
    • Linux
    • Yelp
    • Stripe
  • Code search tools
  • Further reading
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Links and further reading

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Links and further reading

  • How Developers Search for Code: A Case Study by Caitlin Sadowski (Google) et al.
  • Going Beyond grep for Searching Source Code: Zoekt by Nikos Katirtzis at Hotels.com
  • Searching through code at scale by Jeroen Vaelen (Facebook)
  • Architecture of Sourcegraph
  • Zoekt FAQ
  • Yelp engineering blog post about code search
  • History of OpenGrok
  • Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

Discussions about code search

  • Ask HN: How do you search large codebases before adding a feature or fixing a bug? (March 2022)
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