15 Days Of Code Search

Recently, I did a #15DaysOfSearch Twitter campaign to show developers how they can optimize their workflow by mastering code search on sourcegraph.com.

Here's the recap from Day 1 to Day 15:

Day 1

wagmism

@unicodeveloper

Today commences the beginning of #15DaysOfSearch.

I'll show you cool, resourceful & awesome @sourcegraph code search tricks you should be using over the next 15 Days.🤩

Day 1: Search for commit messages matching a string “chore” in a repo with the following query:

16:11 PM - 06 Dec 2021

Day 2

wagmism

@unicodeveloper

Day 2 of #15DaysOfSearch

How to search for code or anything in all branches of a repo starting with "emchap". ✅

Note: "emchap" could be any string or set of characters.

18:50 PM - 07 Dec 2021

Day 3

wagmism

@unicodeveloper

Day 3 of #15DaysOfSearch 🔥 🚀

Today, we'll perform a diff search on repos. With @sourcegraph, you can run a query like so:

Search Query: repo:^github\.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph$ type:diff matrix

18:28 PM - 08 Dec 2021

Day 4

wagmism

@unicodeveloper

Day 4 of #15DaysOfSearch 😍

Today, we’ll learn how to perform a symbol search on @sourcegraph.

With the type:symbol filter, you can search for specific functions, classes, struct definitions & more in your codebase.

Let's search for newrouter in Go codebases. 😌

14:52 PM - 09 Dec 2021

Day 5

wagmism

@unicodeveloper

Day 4 of #15DaysOfSearch 😍

Today, we’ll learn how to perform a symbol search on @sourcegraph.

With the type:symbol filter, you can search for specific functions, classes, struct definitions & more in your codebase.

Let's search for newrouter in Go codebases. 😌

14:52 PM - 09 Dec 2021

Day 6

wagmism

@unicodeveloper

Day 6 of #15DaysOfSearch 🔥🚀

Today, we'll look at how you can discover secrets, private keys and tokens quickly across your codebase with @sourcegraph code search.

With a regular expression search, you can do this:

21:15 PM - 14 Dec 2021

Day 7

wagmism

@unicodeveloper

Day 7 of #15DaysOfSearch

Today we'll perform a language-specific code search on @sourcegraph.

With the "lang" keyword filter, you can narrow your search to return results for a particular language/technology.

Let's do a wild search for "lambda" 😌😍

21:09 PM - 15 Dec 2021

Day 8

Tweet: How to discover projects and repos by checking if they have specific files in them using the “repo:contains.file()” filter.

Day 9

Tweet: How to perform structural search queries.

Day 10

Tweet: How to limit results to display only the repos involved by using the select:repo filter.

Day 11

Tweet: Search contexts on Sourcegraph.

Day 12

Tweet: How to search archived repositories.

Day 13

Tweet: How to search forked repositories.

Day 14

Tweet: How to perform case sensitive searches on Sourcegraph. By default, all searches are case insensitive.

Day 15

Tweet: How to save search, export search results and proactively monitor changes to codebase via Sourcegraph code monitor.

Wrapping Up

Sourcegraph users report an average of 30mins a day saved by using code search. The knowledge of Sourcegraph code search tips and tricks arms you with the confidence to move fast in any codebase.

Sourcegraph Cloud is not the only option to add, explore private code and use search contexts. Sourcegraph can be installed in different ways to give you advanced search features for your private code.

You can run Sourcegraph locally or opt-in for us to set up a managed Sourcegraph instance for your team. You'll be able to use a self-hosted Sourcegraph instance for free (up to 10 users).

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