Hound
Lightning-fast code search across many Git repositories
Hound is a lightning-fast code search tool that indexes many Git repositories and serves regex-based search through a simple web UI. It is self-hosted as a single Go binary or container.
Key features
- Fast regex code search
- Indexes many repos
- Simple web UI
- Single binary
Strengths
- Released under the MIT license
- Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
- First-class Docker support for quick deployment
- Mature project with 5.9k GitHub stars
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