Hi Mariano, for this in Squeak I added a simple menu pick to the Monticello Browser's package list menu called "search history" which opens up a workspace containing the entire history as a flat string. I then just search using ctrl-f. You can find it in a current squeak trunk image.
_,,,^..^,,,_ (phone) > On Dec 10, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianop...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > How many times have you tried to search a string as a comment of a commit in > all the history? Myself: many many times. I know we need much better tools > for that, store the history in a another way, provide a nicer API, etc etc. > And I know there were topics about that. > > However, I would deeply appreciate a very short term solution for ease that. > The model side is as simple as this: > > | packageName ancestry anscestors substring | > packageName := 'MyPackageXX'. > substring := 'whatever I want to search'. > ancestry := (MCWorkingCopy allManagers detect: [:each | each packageName = > packageName] ) ancestry. > anscestors := ancestry withBreadthFirstAncestors select: [:each | each > isKindOf: MCVersionInfo]. > anscestors select: [ :each | each message includesSubstring: substring ] > > Do you think it's worth a simple UI tool? Custom inspector of MCAncestry? > > Cheers, > > > -- > Mariano > http://marianopeck.wordpress.com