What's new in github-code-search v1.8.1

Full release notes: https://github.com/fulll/github-code-search/releases/tag/v1.8.1

Highlights

Fix: silent hang after pagination bar on slow networks

After the Fetching results from GitHub… progress bar completed, the CLI could freeze silently for up to 2 minutes before the interactive TUI appeared. No spinner, no message — the terminal looked stuck. The hang was consistently worse on tethering or congested networks and could sometimes be resolved by re-running on a better connection.

Root cause

The GitHub Code Search API returns only fragment-relative character indices — there are no absolute line numbers in the response. To display accurate line numbers in the TUI, github-code-search fetches the raw content of each matched file from raw.githubusercontent.com after pagination completes.

Two compounding issues caused the hang:

1. No concurrency limit. With 200+ unique files in the results, 200+ HTTP requests fired simultaneously via Promise.all. On a saturated network this overwhelmed the connection pool and caused the event loop to stall.

2. No progress feedback. The user saw nothing between the end of the pagination bar and the TUI — no indication that work was still in progress.

What changed

• Concurrency capped at 20 parallel requests (new concurrentMap helper in api-utils.ts). This dramatically reduces the load on the network connection and prevents the stall pattern on mobile networks.

• Per-request 5 s timeout via AbortSignal.timeout. If a raw file fetch stalls, it is silently abandoned and line numbers fall back to fragment-relative values — results still appear, just without precise absolute line numbers for that file.

• New progress bar shown on stderr during the resolution phase:

    Resolving line numbers… ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░░░░░░░░░░░  23/67

  The line is erased cleanly before the TUI launches, leaving a clean terminal.

Before: silent freeze, up to 2 minutes on tethering.
After: steady progress bar, TUI opens within seconds on any network.

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