How to use OpenGrok with GitHub?

Question

GitHub's advanced search is okay, but the OpenGrok has some desirable features.

To use OpenGrok with GitHub hosted repo's will I have to:

1. Set up my own OpenGrok server
2. Clone the various repos
3. Schedule pulls to keep up-to-date

Or is there another way?

Answer 1

That is the general idea, but:

2/ should be a full clone:

git clone --mirror https://github.com/user/repo

3/ can be triggered by a webhook: if you listen for the JSON payload they generate, you can then pull only where there is a push on the GitHub repo, and push back to your OpenGrok server.

Note: you might want to exclude pull refs (refs/pull/{id}), that is the pull requests that GitHub stores in its Git repo.

Answer 2

There is a new service you can try

www.insight.io

it provides IDE-like code intelligence and allows you to import directly from github. Also it's web-based so you can practically visit it from anywhere.