Accelerate Your Workflow with GitLab's Exact Code Search

Find Code Faster with GitLab’s New Exact Code Search

GitLab has introduced Exact Code Search, a powerful new way to search, discover, and review code across multiple repositories with unmatched speed and precision. This enhancement is available with the GitLab Premium and Ultimate tiers and is designed to significantly reduce the time developers spend searching through their codebases.

Unlike the legacy search functionality, Exact Code Search enables line-accurate, real-time search results across all repositories in your workspace. It leverages Rust-based search technology backed by Zoekt, ensuring lightning-fast performance and precise results that display exact match highlighting and surrounding context.

With this forward-thinking update, developers can use advanced search syntax such as repo:, file:, and even boolean operators to filter their findings. This makes it easier to locate function definitions, reuse existing logic, or trace bugs across services.

You can now search organisation-wide and navigate your monorepos with agility, all from a unified interface in GitLab. Whether you’re reviewing a merge request or investigating code reuse opportunities, Exact Code Search supports your productivity and team collaboration goals.

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