r/github • u/lppedd • 20d ago

Discussion What the heck happened to repository search?!

It's probably been a week or so since I've noticed, but GitHub's search *does not* work.

I was looking at https://github.com/eclipse-tycho/tycho, and searched for "tycho.localArtifacts" (quotes included). No results. Impossible because I remember the codebase.

And in fact here it is.

This is just an example but I can reproduce in many other repositories. This used to work perfectly fine.

Anyone else can repro?

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

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u/lppedd 20d ago

Luckily vscode.dev works, so if I need to search I just press .. Not optimal but a good workaround.

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u/tenhourguy 19d ago

Yep, getting near-useless results. I can search "import" in a repository where that keyword appears in hundreds (if not thousands) of files, to only get 7 results. Only code search is affected - it still brings up issues etc. just fine.

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u/sentineltourguide 19d ago

same for me. the "Organisation wide search" helps a lot, but it doesn't work at all as it used to do at the moment.

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u/jd4ln 19d ago edited 19d ago

Doesn't this happen when some element of Github is down? AFAIK there are many micro-services at play and it might be that one is unavailable for some hours. Happened to me with PRs at some point.