Re: DXR: How to search for a file that has since been removed from the tree?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 1:41 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > $ time hg log dom/canvas/WebGLContextReporter.cpp > /dev/null > 0.110s real > > $ time git log -- dom/canvas/WebGLContextReporter.cpp > /dev/null > 3.175s > Yes --- For similar reasons, CVS handled this case very well

Re: DXR: How to search for a file that has since been removed from the tree?

> Can DXR help me track this down? And the short answer: no, DXR is for only one point in time so far. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: DXR: How to search for a file that has since been removed from the tree?

You can construct URLs like: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/log/default/dom/canvas/WebGLContextReporter.cpp `hg log ` will also show the history of a known path ever under version control. The query should be very fast (even if the path disappeared hundreds of thousands of commits ago)