Antony, it's already there (in new version) and it's working like a charm  

+1. It should make my life easier.

+1, @Paul Johe's comment. I'm really looking forward to getting this deployed. It will help us a ton.

Very nice that Bitbucket Server finally has this feature! Well done Atlassian!

We've made code search generally available in the 4.6 version of Bitbucket Server. You can read the 4.6 release notes here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BitbucketServer/Bitbucket+Server+4.6+release+notes

You can download the latest version of Bitbucket Server from
https://bitbucket.org/product/server

Please feel free to get in touch with us if you'd like to talk about this, or any other feature in Bitbucket Server.

Thanks everyone for your feedback on this so far. If you've had a chance to evaluate code search in Bitbucket Server to date, it'd be great if you could quickly fill out an anonymous survey to tell us how we're doing. Simply visit http://goo.gl/forms/MF6wb5Cswt it shouldn't take more than a few minutes. If you have any specific items you want to talk about, please feel free to email me or provide your email on the feedback form and we'll get in touch as soon as we can.

Thanks again,

Steve King
steve.king@atlassian.com
Product Manager - Bitbucket

Hi everyone,

I've updated the description of the request with some good news. We're running an early access program for code search in Bitbucket Server, which is available for download from our Bitbucket Server EAP Page

Code search is still in EAP and we do not recommend or support running Bitbucket Server with code search in production instances, but we encourage you to try it out and provide us with feedback via Atlassian Support.

Thanks,

Steve King
steve.king@atlassian.com
Product Manager - Bitbucket

"... it is in the final stages of development."

That sounds encouraging. Thank you for that update.

This is something we were able to do with ClearCase when we started using it back in 1998 or so. We had to use a command line for it, and it was slow, but at least we had a method that worked. Command line access to enterprise stash servers isn't really an option, so the lack of a broad search feature is keenly felt by those of us used to having a way to do it.

We have well over a hundred repos within the same project. It's absolutely ridiculous that the Stash web interface doesn't come with a feature for locating a file by name among those repos - and obviously it would be ludicrously difficult to search each repo for the file manually. Actually searching for code or comments within those files would be important too, but searching by file/class name is so basic one really wonders who put this product together without that feature.

The suggestion to clone all the code locally and locate the file via find (or grep) commands only applies to code you're actually working with - but when you need to review someone else's code you have absolutely no reason to create a local repo for it. Think just for one moment of your tech support staff (what a crazy idea, I know).

It's unfathomable that this feature has not been included from day 1 for Stash/Bitbucket Server customers. It is long overdue.