CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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user148865
user148865

Reputation: 326

Github: Search query including wildcard characters

For example, if I want to find where a particular structure is defined inside a given Github repository, I might search struct struct_name {, but as { is simply ignored from search query, result of struct struct_name are displayed. For heavily used structure, it becomes quite difficult to find location of structure definition this way.

I would prefer pulling the repo and grepping the expression, if repo is of reasonably small size, but for large codebase, it might not be viable option.

Any straightforward way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3423

Answers (1)

FrankS101
FrankS101

Reputation: 2135

Is this what you mean?

git grep -n 'struct Pool {'

Otherwise I think there's no way. In the help page of Github is said that:

You can't use the following wildcard characters as part of your search query: . , : ; / \ ` ' " = * ! ? # $ & + ^ | ~ < > ( ) { } [ ]. The search will simply ignore these symbols.

Upvotes: 2

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