Code search

Searching through the vast amount of code available in Software Heritage is a real technical and scientific challenge.

Indeed, when browsing code, one would like to go beyond classical full text search, for which efficient tools do exist.

One possibility is performing search using regular expressions, for which we list here the relevant prior art:

• SourceGraph is an implementation in Go of a regular expression search algorithm
• CodeSearch is a Debian service that uses Google's code for searching through the Debian sources code base