Federation is broken

[chrislovett03]

• Sourcegraph version: 3.40.2
• Platform information: Docker Compose on AWS EC2

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set disablePublicRepoRedirects to False in Site Config
2. Search repo:^github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes on a private instance

Expected behavior:

When searching a public repo available on sourcegraph.com but not indexed on your private Sourcegraph, you would expect to search repo:^github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes and either be obviously redirected to sourcegraph.com or for results to populate directly in your private sg from .com

Actual behavior:

The search returns no repo. Copying the URL from the public Sourcegraph and swapping the hostname for your private Sourcegraph also yields no results.

/cc @jplahn @ryphil

[sourcegraph-bot-2]

Heads up @jplahn - the "team/repo-management" label was applied to this issue.

[sourcegraph-bot-2]

Heads up @benvenker @lguychard - the "team/search-product" label was applied to this issue.

[lguychard]

Note: it is expected that search returns no results; however, redirection should work, but was broken by this commit.

[lguychard]

@benvenker I think this is a "bug" and not a "discussion", based on my comment above; However, given the source of the bug, I would reassign back to repo-management. What do you thinK?

[ceusebi-eb]

I just wanted to point out that as customers of a self hosted instance we still want to search through public code outside our org. Examples of this are:

• Security auditing libraries before we fork them and include them in our org
• Reviewing interviewees assignments
• General code browsing over repos outside our org

Hope this helps prioritize this bug