On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, j. v. d. hoff <veedeeh...@googlemail.com>wrote:

> question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep'
> through a specified file recursively backward in time through all revisions
> (or until first hit of the search pattern)?
>
> j.
>
> ps: yes, I would know now (after having learned how to use `fossil
> artifact' correctly...) how to write a shell script doing that. but that
> would mean to dump the full content of each revision and pipe it through
> the grep which will become slow if there are too many revisions. so the
> question is whether the functionality is already builtin (possibly grepping
> through the deltas instead).
>

This functionality is not built-in.  Nobody has ever thought of it before
in 6 years of use, apparently, or at least has not mentioned it to me.


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