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Comment by olalonde | Hacker News Reader

I really wish Github would bring back issues search and would stop making the top search bar default to the current repository. I constantly search something there and always forget to select "Search all Github". That being said, I think it's good that they are reducing the clutter.

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Yeah, me too. It happens to me at least daily. I don't think I have ever wanted to search within the repository and it certainly shouldn't be default. In fact, I might write a browser extension to make it global by default again.

I don't mind the navigation being on the right, but the clone url doesn't appear on most repositories which is one of the most important elements of the repo.

Good idea, I just wrote a Chrome extension: https://github.com/olalonde/gh-globalsearch

search all of github is broken anyway. Half of my projects couldn't run with the language they choose to label it with. Unless you wade into the src, you have no idea what the repo actually is.

I wish there was a good way to search code. The input is filtered to be safe, which makes it really difficult to find a specific piece of code (especially when searching all of GH).

The bar is context sensitive. Search from your newsfeed, and it searches all of GitHub. If you're looking at a repo, you by default search that repo.

I know how it works, I just don't think it should work that way. I bet 95%+ searches on Github are Github-wide, not repository specific. Why not make the most common use case the default? Plus, why would a top navigation bar be context sensitive?

Interesting. I search within a repo (for code or issues) 95% of the time! It'd be interesting to know what their metrics are for usage of the search bar.

Ah, maybe I was just projecting my own usage patterns. A good middle ground would be for Github to display "All repositories" search results beneath repository specific search results.

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