Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-31 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > I haven't yet figure out the right syntax for doing a grep of files in the > repository. The implementation should be relatively easy once the right > interface is designed. Suggestions are welcomed. > > My 2 cents: fossil grep [--type

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-29 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:17:11 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: >Well, at least for me, it's very important to be able to grep wiki pages and >specially tickets too. I think 'export' won't work, right? Right. Grep should be able to scan any item in the repo, not just code. I just happen not to

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-29 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 08:59:19AM +0100, Gilles wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:10:26 -0700, Matt Welland > wrote: > >Sorry, didn't paste in the second grep: > > Thanks for contributing this work-around. I guess it shows that > there's a need for an easy, integrated grep to find code in the > re

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Gilles
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:10:26 -0700, Matt Welland wrote: >Sorry, didn't paste in the second grep: Thanks for contributing this work-around. I guess it shows that there's a need for an easy, integrated grep to find code in the repository. ___ fossil-user

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Matt Welland
Sorry, didn't paste in the second grep: fsl export | grep -A 10 -B 10 :1906 On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Matt Welland wrote: > I haven't read all of the messages in this thread so please pardon the top > post and possible useless or redundant info but my lazy and oh so very > wrong metho

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Matt Welland
I haven't read all of the messages in this thread so please pardon the top post and possible useless or redundant info but my lazy and oh so very wrong method of grepping an entire fossil repo is to use fossil export and some grepping. No need to put the whole expanded repo on disk. First find the

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:35:57PM +0100, j. v. d. hoff wrote: > this would not prevent, > that people run into the exponential run time problem when using the > "naive" pattern instead the anchored one, but this could be > explained by a FAQ entry making > the problem practically irrelevant. or do

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:46:13 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: I think another point is that the Lua regexp does not do anchoring (or at least I didn't see it - did I miss something?) see also here (from http://www.lua.org/pil/20.4.html): Usually, pattern matching is efficient enough for Lua progra

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:40:17 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 07:26:32PM +0100, j. v. d. hoff wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:22:42 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:09:57PM +0100, j. van den hoff wrote: >>On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:34:44 +0100,

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 19:46:13 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: You don't understand me. Anchoring helps, if you can use it to avoid initial wild cards or limit the length of backtracking. It doesn't help to avoid the exponential edge cas

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Richard Hipp
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > You don't understand me. Anchoring helps, if you can use it to avoid > initial wild cards or limit the length of backtracking. It doesn't help > to avoid the exponential edge cases with .*foo patterns though. > I think another point

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 07:26:32PM +0100, j. v. d. hoff wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:22:42 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger > wrote: > > >On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:09:57PM +0100, j. van den hoff wrote: > >>On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:34:44 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger > >> wrote: > >> > >>>On Mon, Jan 28, 2

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Richard Hipp
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Petr P wrote: > > 2013/1/28 Richard Hipp > >> >> I haven't yet figure out the right syntax for doing a grep of files in >> the repository. The implementation should be relatively easy once the >> right interface is designed. Suggestions are welcomed. >> > > I t

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Petr P
2013/1/28 Richard Hipp > > I haven't yet figure out the right syntax for doing a grep of files in the > repository. The implementation should be relatively easy once the right > interface is designed. Suggestions are welcomed. > I think there are three use cases: (1) searching timeline, (2) se

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:22:42 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:09:57PM +0100, j. van den hoff wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:34:44 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:50:56AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: >>The regular expression matching in >

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 06:09:57PM +0100, j. van den hoff wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:34:44 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger > wrote: > > >On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:50:56AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > >>The regular expression matching in > >>www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/c8fb75a1615f is also

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:34:44 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:50:56AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: The regular expression matching in www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/c8fb75a1615f is also lightweight and it supports | and it is usually as fast or faster than gre

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 08:50:56AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > The regular expression matching in > www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/c8fb75a1615f is also lightweight and it > supports | and it is usually as fast or faster than grep in my tests > (though there are some cases for which grep is fas

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:37:19 -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: >test-grep is recent. > >And so far, test-grep does not do what you are wanting it to do. test-grep >is just a test platform for the regexp engine. No problem. I had no urgent need of grep, just a useful feature. __

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 16:29:18 +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote: >You can use a similar approach for your grep problem and if you are trying to >find when you add something use fossil bisect Thanks for the idea. I'm using Windows, but it's a useful script. _

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Richard Hipp
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Gilles wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:15:13 -0500, Richard Hipp > wrote: > >Fossil already has > >http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/c8fb75a1615f?ln=21-23 and the > >"test-grep" command. > > "test-grep" doesn't show up with "fossil help *" in my 1.24. Wa

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Eduardo Morras
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:25:19 +0100 Gilles wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:22:11 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell > wrote: > >> Is there a way to avoid writing all those files to disk, and just > >> output data to STDOUT and read this with grep? > > > >I don't know how to do that. > > Thanks. I'll

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:15:13 -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: >Fossil already has >http://www.fossil-scm.org/fossil/artifact/c8fb75a1615f?ln=21-23 and the >"test-grep" command. "test-grep" doesn't show up with "fossil help *" in my 1.24. Was it added recently and not yet available in the Windows binary

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:22:11 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: >> Is there a way to avoid writing all those files to disk, and just >> output data to STDOUT and read this with grep? > >I don't know how to do that. Thanks. I'll see if there's a way to create some kind of temporary disk in RAM.

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Richard Hipp
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:24 AM, j. van den hoff wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:15:22 +0100, Stephan Beal > wrote: > > I'm quite sure that this is _not_ a standard regexp lib, but rather lua's > own (and somewhat different) substitute, called lua patterns, I believe. > the lua authors used to ma

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread j. van den hoff
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:15:22 +0100, Stephan Beal wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time dependency. And maybe also a run-time depen

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Richard Hipp
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Stephan Beal wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > >> One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full >> Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time dependency. >> And maybe also a run-time dep

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Stephan Beal
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Richard Hipp wrote: > One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full > Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time dependency. > And maybe also a run-time dependency if a shared library is used (as most > distribution p

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:01:32AM +0100, Gilles wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:43:19 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell > wrote: > >> What do you mean by "deconstruct"? Checking files out? > > > >As this question goes to me... > >$ fossil help deconstruct > > Thanks. After running "deconstruct", do

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:43:19 +0100, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: >> What do you mean by "deconstruct"? Checking files out? > >As this question goes to me... >$ fossil help deconstruct Thanks. After running "deconstruct", do you just grep through all the files, regardless of whether they contain

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:21:03AM +0100, Gilles wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 08:40:14 -0500, Richard Hipp > wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell > >wrote: > >> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:51:51PM +0100, Gilles wrote: > >> > > >> > Since this thread is a bit long, I'd li

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2013-01-28 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 08:40:14 -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: >On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:51:51PM +0100, Gilles wrote: >> > >> > Since this thread is a bit long, I'd like to ask: At this point, what >> > is the solution to find a piece of c

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-12-06 Thread Gilles
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 08:40:14 -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: >(1) grep function_name *.c */*.c# Adjust GLOB expressions as appropriate >(2) fossil up prev >(3) goto (1) Thank you. It works, although I also agree that grep within Fossil would be a good feature. _

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-12-05 Thread Richard Hipp
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:51:51PM +0100, Gilles wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:57:41 +0100, "j. v. d. hoff" > > wrote: > > >question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep' > > >through a specified file recurs

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-12-05 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 01:51:51PM +0100, Gilles wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:57:41 +0100, "j. v. d. hoff" > wrote: > >question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep' > >through a specified file recursively backward in time through all > >revisions (or until first hit o

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-12-05 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:57:41 +0100, "j. v. d. hoff" wrote: >question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep' >through a specified file recursively backward in time through all >revisions (or until first hit of the search pattern)? Since this thread is a bit long, I'd like

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-26 Thread Bernd Paysan
Am Montag, 26. November 2012, 09:08:21 schrieb Andreas Kupries: > > 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. > > FYI > > http://www.fossil-scm.org/ind

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-26 Thread Andreas Kupries
> 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. FYI http://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/delta_encoder_algorithm.wiki http://www.fossil-scm.org/i

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-25 Thread Steve Bennett
On 25/11/2012, at 9:24 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Gilles wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:21:54 -0500, Richard Hipp > wrote: > >One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full > >Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compi

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-25 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Gilles [20121124 23:01]: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:21:54 -0500, Richard Hipp > wrote: > >One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full > >Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time dependency. > >And maybe also a run-time dependency if a shared libr

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-25 Thread Baruch Burstein
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Bernd Paysan 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 man

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Gilles
On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:17:44 +0100, "j. v. d. hoff" wrote: >would intgration of the lua library > >http://www.lua.org/ > >be a silly idea? it's under MIT licence, has very small footprint (quite >probable smaller than a full fledged regex lib), and has a quite powerful >pattern matching facili

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Richard Hipp
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Gilles wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:21:54 -0500, Richard Hipp > wrote: > >One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full > >Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time dependency. > >And maybe also a run-time depend

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 23:42:02 +0100, James Turner wrote: What about just using regex(3)? It's included with BSD and quite possibly Linux distributions, but I have no way of checking. No idea how good the library is, but it might cut down on dependencies? would intgration of the lua library

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread James Turner
What about just using regex(3)? It's included with BSD and quite possibly Linux distributions, but I have no way of checking. No idea how good the library is, but it might cut down on dependencies? -- James Turner ja...@calminferno.net ___ fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Mike Meyer
Stefan Bellon wrote: >I'd rather vote for a "list all matching revisions" >in the --all case and the default behaviour to stop at the "most recent >match". I think there are three cases, the third being the earliest matching revision. Especially if the current revision is a match. Having the d

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Gilles
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 09:21:54 -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: >One big problem here is that the user will doubtless expect to have full >Perl regular expressions. That will mean another compile-time dependency. >And maybe also a run-time dependency if a shared library is used (as most >distribution pac

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Stefan Bellon
On Sat, 24 Nov, Bernd Paysan wrote: > % fossil grep xyzzy ext1.txt > 7c88a35016..cbaff03a91:ext1.txt:here we have the *xyzzy* string I would be in favour of this approach for a version control system with the concept of serial, incremental revision numbers where you can deduce from a range N..M w

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Bernd Paysan
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 s

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:05:55 +0100, Bernd Paysan wrote: Am Samstag, 24. November 2012, 08:59:58 schrieb Richard Hipp: So what should the output look like? Suppose we implement a command: fossil grep REGEXP FILENAMEGLOB Which searches all historical versions of files that match FILENAME

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Bernd Paysan
Am Samstag, 24. November 2012, 08:59:58 schrieb Richard Hipp: > So what should the output look like? Suppose we implement a command: > >fossil grep REGEXP FILENAMEGLOB > > Which searches all historical versions of files that match FILENAMEGLOB for > patterns that match REGEXP. Suppose for c

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Matt Welland
A grep though history would be a very useful functionality, There have been many times I'd have used it. Using sqlite3 glob or like for the pattern match would be more than adequate. If you need a regex just use the glob to select for the lowest common denominator and then pipe though egrep with th

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 15:21:54 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, j. v. d. hoff wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:59:58 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell >wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:18:55AM -0500, Richard Hip

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Richard Hipp
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 9:12 AM, j. v. d. hoff wrote: > On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:59:58 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell > >wrote: >> >> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:18:55AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: >>> > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, j. v.

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:59:58 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:18:55AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, j. v. d. hoff < veedeeh...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > question: is there a

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:59:58AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell > wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:18:55AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, j. v. d. hoff < > > veedeeh...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > >

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Richard Hipp
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:18:55AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, j. v. d. hoff < > veedeeh...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > > > question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep' > >

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread j. v. d. hoff
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 14:18:55 +0100, Richard Hipp wrote: On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, j. v. d. hoff wrote: question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep' through a specified file recursively backward in time through all revisions (or until first hit of the search

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Lluís Batlle i Rossell
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:18:55AM -0500, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, j. v. d. hoff > wrote: > > > question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep' > > through a specified file recursively backward in time through all revisions > > (or until first hi

Re: [fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread Richard Hipp
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:57 AM, j. v. d. hoff wrote: > question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep' > through a specified file recursively backward in time through all revisions > (or until first hit of the search pattern)? > > j. > > ps: yes, I would know now (after havin

[fossil-users] howto `grep' through old revisions

2012-11-24 Thread j. v. d. hoff
question: is there a straightforward (or sqlite-based) way to `grep' through a specified file recursively backward in time through all revisions (or until first hit of the search pattern)? j. ps: yes, I would know now (after having learned how to use `fossil artifact' correctly...) how to