GitHub adds code search

They don't escape the query text field - XSS.

http://github.com/codesearch?q=%22%3E%3Cscript%3Ealert(%22Oops%22)%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cspan%20%22&repo=&langOverride=&language=&x=0&y=0

Thank you! This is why I'm so happy to send real money to this service.

The search feature also seems to be somewhat fuzzy, which rocks. Searching for "isnumeric language:c" returns hits for "is_numeric", "isnumeral", etc. Very nice!

My only minor complaint is that the search results page is sometimes displaying the wrong highlighted excerpts of matched files. For example, using the above search, I see highlighted text for things like the "(c)" in a copyright notice, or an emacs "Mode: C" hint. Because it's only displaying the first highlighted region per-file, it's hard to use the results page to see which hit I want to drill down into.

Very nice. It'd be nice to see a little better relevance. For example, I searched for "game" then drilled down to one of my projects which was listed in the side bar. Towards the bottom of the results was a hit from "game.rb"... it seems like a hit from a file who's name includes the search term might be more relevant than that.

Or, perhaps a hit like "class Game" should be considered more relevant than "attr_reader :game". Perhaps.

Overall, very nice though.

More RSS icon size! Bigger!

How about tags for gists?

That would make it quite a bit easier to find a specific algorithm or code snippet.

Are there disclosure guidelines on Hacker News? The submitter is on the GitHub team, IIRC, but it doesn't say that in the submission title or in his profile.

Edit: changed from "What are the..." to "Are there"