Sourcegraph

Sourcegraph

Adds code intelligence to GitHub, GitLab, and other hosts: hovers, definitions, references. For 20+ languages.

What is Sourcegraph?
Sourcegraph is a Chrome extension adding code navigation and intelligence to GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket Server, Phabricator, and more. It's equipped with hover tooltips, definitions, references, and integrates with third-party services like Codecov. It also supports private repositories by connecting to a private Sourcegraph instance. Features work for over 20 languages.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 100,000+
Rating: 4.57 (169)
Version: 23.12.12.2159 (Last updated: 2023-12-13)
Creation date: 2020-05-28
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • storage
  • contextMenus
  • https://github.com/*
  • https://sourcegraph.com/*
Size: 8.62M
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Summary

The open-source Sourcegraph extension adds code navigation and code intelligence to GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, Bitbucket Server and Phabricator.

• Code intelligence on your code host:

  • Hover tooltips with documentation and type information
  • Go to definition
  • Find references

• Integrations with third-party services like Codecov coverage overlays, open-in-editor buttons and many more with Sourcegraph extensions

• Browser shortcut (src + Space) that performs the search on your Sourcegraph instance

It works for 20+ languages on public and private code on popular code hosts (see below).

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User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Helpful for viewing and navigating code on GitHub
  • Works well with Octotree
  • Supports browser code navigation
Cons
  • Has compatibility issues, throws errors and does not work for some users
  • Does not seem to work well with non-English languages (Chinese comments issues)
  • Slow performance reported by some users
Most mentioned
  • Useful for GitHub code viewing and navigation
  • Errors/issues when using
  • Works well with Octotree
Recent reviews
可以调整为黑暗背景吗?
by A Google user, 2019-01-20

Why the Status shows ' Limited Functionality '? And ' Error fetching hover from language server ' when I see a code. How can I solve it?
by A Google user, 2018-09-13

可以调整为黑暗背景吗?
by A Google user, 2019-01-20
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Safety
Risk impact

Sourcegraph is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Sourcegraph has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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