ggreer/the_silver_searcher
A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster.
27.1k stars · 1.4k forks · C
Avoid
Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.
Why
- No human commits since December 2020, and only 0 of 5 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
What would change this
- A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
Maintenance
CompleteDormant
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 0
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Dec 17, 2020 (5 years ago)
- Last human commit
- Dec 17, 2020 (5 years ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 34 days
Responsiveness: of 5 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 100 since Nov 19, 2017
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 18
- Contributors
- 195
Top committers
- ggreer: 52% of commits
- aswild: 3% of commits
- Nelyah: 3% of commits
- aitzkora: 2% of commits
- alexbiehl: 2% of commits
- No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2017-11-19T14:51:03Z.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Apr 19, 2013 to Apr 20, 2013: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 9, 2013 to Jul 10, 2013: about 24 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jul 20, 2013 to Jul 20, 2013: about 29 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Nov 28, 2013 to Nov 28, 2013: about 22 more stars than usual, peak 25 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 5, 2014 to Mar 6, 2014: about 35 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 7, 2014 to May 8, 2014: about 65 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 22, 2014 to Jul 23, 2014: about 38 more stars than usual, peak 28 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 24, 2020 to May 25, 2020: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 55 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 712 stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- 712 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.4 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.4 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: ggreer/the_silver_searcher
Badge
Add this to a README to show the current verdict:
[](https://reporadar.ai/ggreer/the_silver_searcher)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
Computed 9 hours ago · method 2026.10.2