On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:18:55AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > 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.
I use this from time to time. My procedure goes through deconstructing the database, grepping recursive, and resolving back the hashes with fossil ui. Regards, Lluís. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
