On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Petr Ferdus <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to use some functions already implemented in fossil sources in
> embedded sqlite3 command-line shell.
> (e.g. function content_get as seen on
> http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/fdiff?v1=360ee81fbda1ff5c&v2=8e775f025b681127part
>  of check in
> http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/info/73d274360c)
> How difficult would it be to interface such function (functions) without
> need to duplicate code and just reuse stuff already being there?
>
> The fact that searches throughout repository content is not supported in
> trunk implementation of fossil is for me major drawback of otherwise
> extremely useful application (maybe it s a matter of implementational
> priorities, but  how do heavy users of fossil SCM do their searches in
> historical artifacts?). Having shell with search ability could surely
> enhance usability and help people to evaluate possibilities how to do search
> across all historical versions of a project.
>
> I like to hear your comments and most preferably see search functionality
> in fossil.
>

It is a reasonable request.  I've often wanted a content_get() function for
SQL myself.  The implementation should only be a few lines of code.  Might
as well add SQL functions for MD5 and SHA1 hashes,
compression/decompression, and delta encoding too, while we're at it.


>
> Thanks.
>
> Peter
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