Am Samstag, 24. November 2012, 08:59:58 schrieb Richard Hipp:
> So what should the output look like?  Suppose we implement a command:
> 
>    fossil grep REGEXP FILENAMEGLOB
> 
> Which searches all historical versions of files that match FILENAMEGLOB for
> patterns that match REGEXP.  Suppose for concreteness that the regular
> expression is "xyzzy" and the file is "ex1.txt".  If there are 1000
> different revisions of ex1.txt, does it search them all looking for "xyzzy"
> and show each hit?  Or did it stop going backwards in time at the first hit
> it find?

Hm, I'd rather show first and last revision where xyzzy is in, something like

% fossil grep xyzzy ext1.txt
7c88a35016..cbaff03a91:ext1.txt:here we have the *xyzzy* string

If you grep through some edit war, you will have many start..stop start..stop 
tuples.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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