Hello, I found a few previous discussions about the implementation of full text search in Fossil and I'm curious about the current status. It's clear that this isn't a simple problem to solve, but I think it's an essential feature to have, even if the initial implementation covers just the most basic use cases.
As a first step, I would allow searching of the timeline and tickets. These items don't introduce problems related to branching, and the database size should not be affected too much. The index should not be synchronized with other repositories and I would leave it off by default. Once enabled, the index is updated automatically after each new timeline entry. If the entry refers to a ticket, then include its title and comments. The second step would be to index stand-alone wiki pages. This is also fairly straightforward; ignore history and index the most recent version of each page. The final step would be indexing the actual file contents. This would apply to the embedded documentation and any other file types. Exactly how to do this is a tricky question to answer, but my initial thought is to provide a configuration option through which an admin can specify the branches and file types to include in the index. For example: trunk:*.wiki release:*.h;*.c;*.txt As with the stand-alone wiki pages, I would only index the last version of each matching file in each branch. When a file is changed by a new check-in or push, remove the old version and index the new one. Finally, how should the results be presented? Perhaps the simplest solution is to only show one type of results on a single page. Just as you have Tickets Only, Wiki Only, and other buttons on the current timeline page, the search results can default to the timeline view, where the user could then click buttons to search for other type of information (Tickets, Wiki, and Files). Thoughts? - Max _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
