Hi Richard,

On 09 Jun 2016, at 17:16 , Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:
> I've long thought that this would be a very useful feature to add.

+1


> (1) A full-text index uses roughly 30% as much disk space as the
> content that is being indexed.  (This is a mathematical property of
> full-text search - not a deficiency in Fossil's implementation.)
> Doing full text search on all check-in diffs might result in a very
> large search index.

Well, 30% isn’t an issue in most cases, I figure.


> (4) Initializing the search index means computing all historical
> check-in diffs.  That might take a while.  Figure about 10 check-ins
> per second.  Fossil itself currently has 9506 check-ins, so total
> initialization time would be 15 minutes.  (The "10 checkins per
> second" number is a guess.  Processing might go significantly faster.
> We will need to experiment to know.)

One could make this indexing optional, perhaps, no? A bit like the
indexing of Wiki/Docu/Tickets info in the UI…

Greets,
Marko

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