On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Bernd Paysan <bernd.pay...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 24. November 2012, 20:28:16 schrieb j. v. d. hoff: > > what you propose could easily be filter out from a full recursive search > > backward through all revisions (and it would require such a search), > right? > > Fossil, like many other VCSes, compresses revisions internally, and stores > only some sort of deltas. I don't know how it is actually done, but > usually, > it's some sort of patches. You only have to grep through the patches, they > show you when things were added and removed. > > Expanding all the history should not be necessary to implement this > feature. Fossil's "patches" are not like SVN "patches". Those are always whole lines. Fossil's patches may start mid-word (I think). ˙uʍop-ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ 'sıɥʇ pɐǝɹ uɐɔ noʎ ɟı
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