ggreer /the_silver_searcher
A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
- Stars
- 27,125 stars
- Forks
- 1,434 forks
- Language
- C
- License
- APACHE-2.0
- Created
- Nov 19, 2011
- Last push
- Jun 16, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 3, 2026
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A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
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In the Repository Index since Oct 22, 2026, from the starting dataset of the index.
Star History
192 days recorded, Apr 26, 2026 – Nov 3, 2026 (UTC). Net change +206 stars.
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It gained stars on 125 of the 192 days recorded since Apr 26, 2026.
Its largest 7 days were May 9, 2026 to May 15, 2026: 14 stars.
In the 30 days to Nov 3, 2026 it got 11 stars, 68% fewer than in the 30 days before.
It had 26,919 stars before Apr 26, 2026 and has 27,125 stars now: 22,875 fewer than 50,000.
- Created on the Repository Host
- Latest push
- +4 stars in one day
- +4 stars in one day
- Largest star day recorded: +6 stars
- Entered the Repository Index from the Seed Dataset
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Forks and pushes
From 14 Observations, Oct 22, 2026 – Nov 4, 2026. Forks -2. AwesomeRepos saw a new push on 0 of 13 days.
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A filled day: the last push time changed since the Observation before it.
Health facts
Measured facts in four separate dimensions, each with a date and a source. AwesomeRepos does not add them into one score. AwesomeRepos last read these facts from GitHub on Nov 4, 2026. How AwesomeRepos defines each check
Maintenance
1 of 4 checksYes: Not archived
GitHub does not mark the repository as archived. Source
No: A push in the last 90 days
Last push on 2024-06-16, 870 days ago. Source
No: Commits in the last 13 weeks
0 commits on the default branch in the last 13 weeks (GitHub, 2026-11-04). Source
No: Commits in 26 or more of the last 52 weeks
Commits in 0 of the last 52 weeks (GitHub, 2026-11-04). Source
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Releases
0 of 3 checks (1 without data)No: A release in the last 365 days
No GitHub release (read on 2026-11-03). Source
No data: The newest release tag is a semantic version
No data: no release.
No: A changelog file at the root
No changelog file at the root (GitHub, 2026-11-04).
Security practice
0 of 1 checkNo: A security policy
GitHub finds no security policy (GitHub, 2026-11-04).
OpenSSF Scorecard: 14 checks on Oct 19, 2026
Each check has its own score, from 0 to 10. AwesomeRepos does not show the Scorecard aggregate score, and these checks are not in the count above. Source
- Binary-Artifacts
- 10 of 10
- Branch-Protection
- 0 of 10
- CII-Best-Practices
- 0 of 10
- Code-Review
- 9 of 10
- Dangerous-Workflow
- No result
- Fuzzing
- 0 of 10
- License
- 10 of 10
- Maintained
- 0 of 10
- Packaging
- No result
- Pinned-Dependencies
- No result
- SAST
- 0 of 10
- Security-Policy
- 0 of 10
- Signed-Releases
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Community files
2 of 3 checksDependencies in the index
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The GitHub dependency graph of this repository names 0 direct packages (scanned on Nov 3, 2026). None of them comes from another repository in the index.
No scanned repository names a package from this repository.
Uses (in the index) · 0
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Used by (in the index) · 0
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Observations
Latest Observation, Nov 4, 2026: 27,125 stars, 1,434 forks, last push Jun 16, 2024, not archived. One of 14 Observations since Oct 22, 2026.