I wonder how often they rebuild the indexes, and scan for new commits. That's an interesting problem to solve actually

This is something that should have been in place 3 years ago. I guess it's a good that GitLab is lighting the fire under them, as we all benefit. Given the resources they have, it really is puzzling, they couldn't understand what was important for increasing software development productivity.

I'm guessing they heard enough of "what do you mean we can't search for commits?" from potential/existing Enterprise customers, that they realized this was actually important.