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Comment by dajohnson89 | Hacker News Reader

This this this. I would spend so much time on GitHub if the search were better. I'm tempted to say that search is less than OK. I do have a huge Java repo, but I'm usually shocked when I quickly find what im querying for.

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I'm always stuped by the fact that when I search for SomeClass I get a dozen of results from tests and the actual class SomeClass in a file called SomeClass.x appears on page 4. Haven't found a way yet to exclude those pesky tests.

It still boggles my mind that there is no (good) way to search all an organization's repos at once. The docs (e.g. [0] but also in other places) claim you can just put "org:foo" in the search bar, but it has never worked for me.

[0] https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/

"user:foo" will search an organisation named foo.

Using google and site:github.com? I never use the search on the site...

And then clicking Tools->Verbatim because google otherwise gives results that are wildly different from what you specify..

I can't believe I've missed this. The quality of my search results at google has been steadily going downhill, and I'm often left with a thought along the lines of, "But if you just searched for only the words I used..."

Anyway, thanks for posting it!

There should be a search mode for IT professionals. That way, things like curly braces, numbers, and non-words are still treated as meaningful.

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