When folks ask me a question about our codebase internally I try to a) answer the question b) say "If I were trying to find the answer to that question with our tools, here's my entry point, here's the search query, and here's my mental heuristic for why I'd click on result #3"
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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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Awesome! How does this compare to Hound?
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I'm not familiar with Hound so I can't answer that question usefully, but you can play with an instance that searches the Linux codebase at https://livegrep.com
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Wow, this is amazing. I can't believe I never heard about this!
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