On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:10:57AM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: > Is doing this in the log receiver really any faster than filtering in a > custom callback handler, or even a script?
It's not. And it is not about the speed of the filtering itself. It is much more convenient to have this built in, especially on platforms that don't have nice post-processing tools installed by default (e.g. Windows). I've been using it several times already to find commit messages for things that I only vaguely remembered -- e.g. "when did stefan2 fix this bug where we worked around APR file flush being broken?". The command "svn log --search stefan2 --search-and flush" returns just two log messages (r1325899 and r1240752) to pick from. For me, as a human who is bad at scanning large amounts of pages in a pager even with assistance from the pager's built-in search, that speeds things up. It works well for that kind of thing.
