GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 636682
git.gnome.org is not indexed on google code search
Last modified: 2011-10-16 12:55:48 UTC
git.gnome.org is not indexed on google code search. I'm not sure why. We don't seem to be blocking it via robots.txt, so maybe just following the link from http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/faq_codesearch.html#addcode and telling them to index it would make it work.
Briefly looking at the Google Code Search page I don't see a simple way to have it import all of our git repositories. It supports individual files, cvs and svn currently--I suppose we could try to enter the git URL in the svn entry, but no idea if that'd work. This might take a little more digging to find the simplest way to do this, but I don't consider it a high-priority.
Hm, ok, apparently they only sort-of support git. http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-search/browse_thread/thread/9371abb6e44ab5ae/ad8e584d097c76dc.
If we can find a contact email, it might be worth sending a mail and offer to put up a (dynamically updated) list of our repositories at some URL in whatever format they need. That's easy for us to do, and the amount of code we have is nothing to sneeze at - worth some effort on their part.
the official "contact email" seems to be the google-code-search google group
http://live.gnome.org/Git/FAQ#How_do_I_get_a_plain_text_file_of_all_GNOME_repositories.3F http://git.gnome.org/repositories.txt http://git.gnome.org/repositories.doap
As announced on http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-sweep.html they are shutting it down so maybe we can close this as WONTFIX.
Yup. I guess this explains why they never made any more progress towards full git support