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		remram on Feb 8, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GitHub experiencing issues with actions, pull requ... I can't understand your point. GitHub can search over finer granularities e.g. single repo. And did you understand my use case at all, about grep not being an option when searching at wider scales? No, I am not "kidding"... are you?

inetknght on Feb 8, 2021 [–]

I don't understand grep not being an option when searching at wider scales. I have yet to find a wide-enough scale that grep can't handle.

And GitHub's search results are _literally_ useless.

> No, I am not "kidding"... are you?

Nope

devlopr on Feb 8, 2021 | [–]

grep or git-grep? (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-grep)

inetknght on Feb 9, 2021 | | [–]

I use pure `grep`, not `git-grep`.

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