Code search guide (codesearchguide.org)

STATUS: Work in progress! Many pages are incomplete.

Everything you ever wanted to know about code search.

Read at codesearchguide.org:

• What is code search?
• Features & use cases (TODO)
• How companies/projects use code search
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Brave
  • Chromium & Android
  • Linux
  • Yelp
  • Stripe
• Code search tools
• History of code search (TODO)
• Further reading

Contributing

All contributions are welcome. Just open a pull request.

This entire guide is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0.

To preview the site locally, install docsite and run docsite serve in this directory.

Inspirations

Some super useful comprehensive guides to a certain topic:

• Pro Git by Scott Chacon
• Pricing low-touch SaaS by Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

Sourcegraph-internal documentation

This section is only applicable to Sourcegraph staff.

• codesearchguide.org analytics (page views, etc.)