Fancy tips and tricks from the DevX team when using Sourcegraph!
Let's say you find a dead link in the handbook and you can't find where the new content is. What you can do is to search using the diff type in conjunction with file to find the commit that deleted it.
repo:^github\.com/sourcegraph/handbook$ file:^content/departments/product-engineering/process/planning-process\.md type:diff
To ensure this example stays correct, the query here includes the full path toward the file, but using simply file:planning-process.md would have worked as well.
Here we can see that the first result, mentions a commit from Quinn Slack that deleted the file we're looking for. Inspecting that commit, we can see that the file has been fully deleted and there isn't a direct equivalent for our original dead link.
Let's say we're bumping the minimum version of a module, because now we're using generics. We probably want to see what go version the modules importing our library are using in the wild:
context:@sourcegraph file:go.mod file:go\.mod$ go\s*(\d\.\d+) and github.com/sourcegraph/log patternType:regexp