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Comment by jeremiep | Hacker News Reader

Is it me or the new feature that hasn't shipped they mentioned is the source code search input box next to the download button?

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  - Public repo search.
  - Main search box says "Search or Type a Command"
  - Heartbeat icon in main navigation.
  - Compass icon in top right user navigation.
  - Advanced search button is now an actual button.

If so, that would be incredible. More than once I've found myself wanting to search a repository for a specific word or variable without downloading it and acking through it.

You can actually do that already. Just go to github.com/user/repo/search

So: https://github.com/rails/rails/search

I believe GitHub admins have that little search bar on every repo, while regular joes can only search private repos.

You can search the contents of public repos from the main search box (https://github.com/search has instructions on how), and the search bar on private repos is only intended as a workaround for the main search not working for them. I have no idea how it's taken them this long to figure out that the repo-specific search box is far more user-friendly and discoverable.

I thought it might be the "tags" panel - a way to organize your watched repos?

That's actually a list of git tags (http://learn.github.com/p/tagging.html), and they're on the current site, e.g. https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl/tags

oops.. wishful thinking!

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