We plan to bring code search closer to the "keyword search" style that users are used to, where queries are broken up into individual terms that can match broadly across the file name, contents, and symbols. This issue tracks our first round of work on improving the query language, which we aim to merge next release as 'beta'.

Example query: repo:sourcegraph/sourcegraph auth provider

• auth provider matches files that contain both the strings auth and provider in any order. Before, it only matched files containing the exact string auth provider
• There are no changes to filters in this release, so repo:sourcegraph/sourcegraph works as usual

Core changes

• Prototype search language simplifications #58799
• Fold prototype into "search keyword" search mode @stefanhengl
  • Spaces interpreted as ANDs
    • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59164
  • search: support "exact match" pattern using "..." #59057
  • Support regex patterns using /.../
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59686
• Solidify the UX @jtibshirani
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59707
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59779
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59840
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59915
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/60047
• Address issue with file match limit, where all top results may be from a single file @keegancsmith

Usability / performance

• Test that Zoekt can handle AND queries with many clauses @keegancsmith
• https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/issues/59038 @jtibshirani
• Debug why new search mode is much slower on S2 @keegancsmith
• Promote results with an exact match, so users can still easily copy/ paste in snippets @keegancsmith
  • score: introduce query.Boost to scale score zoekt#728
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59940

Testing + polish

• search: document keyword search docs#55
• Telemetry @jtibshirani
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59097
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/59993
  • https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph/pull/60022
• Complete "Keyword search quality plan" (separate doc)

/cc @sourcegraph/search-platform