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I wish they reverted to the old search bar, where you could chose to search globally or just the repository you're on currently: https://github.com/blog/1492-repository-search-on-all-reposi...

Unless I missed something, the only way to search globally now is to go to github.com and then use the search bar.

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> Unless I missed something, the only way to search globally now is to go to github.com and then use the search bar.

You can delete the default "this repository" facet. Just hit backspace when you're in the "local" search: http://giphy.com/gifs/l41lJC4ZrO3sEFuNO

Nice, thanks for the demo! I take back what I said, this is better than the old version with the dropdown.

Wow I totally missed that, I wouldn't say that it's very good UX considering that it doesn't intuitive for many, with the dropdown it's obvious that you can switch.

It definitely has terrible discoverability. Same as the file Find As You Type (hit `t`, type bits of a filename).

Yeah, the only way I ever found it was because I kept accidentally doing global searches when I though I was searching a repo. Turns out I just held backspace too long while clearing out the search bar. It took me a long time to realize what was going on.

And keyboard shortcut is `s` then `backspace` to do a global search.

If you press the delete/backspace key when you focus the search box, you can search globally from most pages.

Oh wow, can't believe I haven't tried that all this time! I'm glad I complained now :)

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