This is trying to thread the needle on always, always being happy to give responsive answers to questions while also increasing people's ability to self-serve on them in the future.
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Since it's publicly available, let me mention that the most common tool I use for answering these questions is livegrep and that I intend to boot up a livegrep instance on the first day of every startup for the rest of my life. It borders on miraculous.https://github.com/livegrep/livegrep …
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"What's livegrep do?" Instantly grep all code at your company from a web interface, with it producing the relevant files, contextual snippets, and links to the full version in Github/GHE/etc. It's blaaaaaazing fast, too, even across our Very Materially Sized codebase.
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Importantly, because livegrep functions through a web interface, you don't need to have the right repository checked out to very quickly answer questions about it. (It's also ~100X faster than trying to search Github, in my experience, and significantly faster than grep.)
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I tend to sit down with whoever asked the question and do (b).
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See lots of tweets that everyone 'googles' but there's a skill to knowing what to search and how to spot the right answer. Imagine similar with all 'searching tools'. Sharing your process I imagine as useful as the tool.
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