Global Search file content in Gitlab repositories, search across repositories, search across all files-CarlZeng
How Global Search file content in Gitlab repositories(search across repositories)?
There is an existing answer to it, we can file the source code here https://github.com/phillipj/gitlab-search
Yes, that’s a Gitlab solution sit in Github :-) maybe you can find Github solutions/features in Gitlab repository too
Steps for Mac:
Install the tool by npm in Terminal
npm install -g gitlab-search
After installation success, it make sense to prepare a GitLab access token now
Create a GitLab personal access token
Note: Make sure check-on ‘read_api’
Grants read access to the API, including all groups and projects, the container registry, and the package registry.
or Select ALL; We can see all the existing token under: Active personal access tokens (*)
Got token(Your new personal access token) like: _avcPZb6sd4sUWXe3***
Setup gitlab-search
gitlab-search setup _avcPZb6sd4sUWXe3***
Successfully wrote config to .gitlabsearchrc, gitlab-search is now ready to be used
Usage sample:
- Search File content:
- gitlab-search functionabc
This’s a useful tool to globally search file content in gitlab repositories, enjoy it.
