How do I escape characters in GitHub code search?

Question

I\'m trying to use GitHub\'s code search to search for some lines of code containing characters like =, +, etc.

I understand from https://help.

Answer 1

You will need to do this locally. Here are some options, from https://stackoverflow.com/a/38288679/362202:

• clone your company's github source website
• do locally a git grep, which supports basic regexp or extended POSIX regexp (git grep -E)
• or a pickaxe search (git log --all -S...
• or git rev-list --all|grep xxx which also allows for regexp

These strategies would not work for github-wide searches, which is a shame.