Instant Code Navigation for Any Commit ☠️
summary
Describes a solution for instant code navigation for any commit using Go tooling and web interfaces to avoid switching from a code review platform to an IDE. Explains the root causes of poor in-browser navigation and presents an approach (integrating code navigation features into web platforms) to enable fast jump-to-definition, cross-file navigation and similar IDE-like capabilities for pull-request review.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:49Code navigation problem
- 3:16Platform approaches compared
- 7:05Using the compiler
- 10:13GitHub text search
- 12:40Benchmark selection and requirements
- 17:14Git structure and commit index
- 19:22Direct indexes and implementation
- 21:54Text indexes and trigrams
- 24:00Pre-commit indexing
- 26:07Local resolve improvements
- 28:13Global resolve and member index
- 32:03Snapshot and index deltas
- 35:12Benchmarks and results
- 36:34Platform availability plans
- 37:18Q&A
