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docs/search: explain indexed vs unindexed trigram difference - #2084
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Zoekt skips the content of files with more than 20,000 unique trigrams, but searcher has no such check, so the same query can return more results with index:no than with indexed search. Rather than adding a trigram check to searcher, we agreed to document the difference and the workarounds (index:no or search.largeFiles). Discussion: https://sourcegraph.slack.com/archives/C022SPMNR0W/p1791537536129499 Amp-Thread-ID: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-01a12086-a7de-72df-95e1-32459134836e Co-authored-by: Amp <amp@ampcode.com>
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Zoekt skips the content of files with more than 20,000 unique trigrams (mostly minified JS, source maps and lockfiles), but unindexed search (searcher) has no such check, so the same query can return more results with
index:nothan indexed. Rather than adding a trigram check to searcher, we agreed to document the difference and the workarounds:index:noorsearch.largeFiles.Discussion: https://sourcegraph.slack.com/archives/C022SPMNR0W/p1791537536129499