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How is Sourcebot different?

Simpler installation and maintenance

OpenGrok

• Setup requires you to manually install several dependencies (Java, ctags, Python, etc), clone the repo, manually deploy a web application using Tomcat, and then manually clone and index all of the repos you want to search through

• No automatic reindexing, you need to setup your own cron job

• Branches must be cloned and indexed manually

• Every new repo you want to search through must be manually cloned and indexed

• Known issues with handling large repositories

Sourcebot

• Setup by defining a config JSON file and running a docker container. Automatically clones and indexes the repos in the config and spins up a webapp for you to begin searching immediately

• Fetches updates and reindexes repos automatically

• Branches are easily defined in the config file and automatically cloned and indexed

• New repos are indexed by adding them to the config file

• Easily handles thousands of repos of all sizes

Modern UI

OpenGrok

• Legacy UI built in Java

• Requires you to specify which project(s) you want to search in

• No information on which repos or languages were hit

• Auth must be configured manually

Sourcebot

• Modern UI built with next.js

• No need to specify which projects you want to search across

• Built-in file viewer while navigating search results

• Built-in auth layer

• Ability to highlight and create a permalink to code snippets

• Ability to filter results by repository and/or language

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