Add ability to search through repositories

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
git, python
Domain
search

Research direction

Start by reviewing pygit2's existing repository APIs and the behavior of git grep <search key> described in the request. Define the repository scope, search inputs, and result format before implementation; done means pygit2 exposes code search with behavior comparable to the requested git grep use case.

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Description

Feature Request:

Have the ability to to search through code like git grep <search key> does with pygit2

Dominant language
Python
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