Set up precise code intelligence with Sourcegraph

[chrismwendt]

Sourcegraph recently added support for precise code intelligence using LSIF, and we're looking for open source projects (such as Zoekt) to try it out!

With LSIF-based code intelligence and the Sourcegraph browser extension, you'll get hover tooltips on GitHub code views and PRs:

You can try it out on my fork before merging https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/chrismwendt/zoekt/-/blob/cmd/zoekt/main.go#L34:23

Without LSIF, you'll only see the default code intelligence, which is fuzzy and based on ctags + text search (in turn powered by Zoekt!).

All you need to do is:

• Generate a GitHub access token with public_repo scope at https://github.com/settings/tokens
• Create a new secret https://github.com/google/zoekt/settings/secrets called PUBLIC_REPO_GITHUB_TOKEN with that token
• Merge this PR

Every commit thereafter will trigger the LSIF action to generate and upload LSIF data for this repository to Sourcegraph.com. Anyone visiting https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/google/zoekt or viewing this repository with the Sourcegraph browser extension will then see precise code intelligence.

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[hanwen]

can you point me to the ToS that govern this service?

[chrismwendt]

can you point me to the ToS that govern this service?

https://about.sourcegraph.com/terms

[hanwen]

sorry for the delays.

The old TOS for Sourcegraph ruffled some feathers in the past, so I'm trying to unruffle them.

[sqs]

@hanwen Thanks. If we can help unruffle anything, let me know (email works, too: sqs@sourcegraph.com).