On 20 February 2010 00:15, Parth Malwankar <email address hidden> wrote:
> I could have a look at this in case vila (or anyone else) is not
> planning to work on this anytime soon.
>
> I was thinking that this could probably be developed as a plugin and in
> a month or so if there are no issues it could be proposed for a merge.
There already is a plugin; this bug just wants it to be included in
bzr's core, or turned into a shipped plugin.
> Regarding the 'bzr grep' command, my understanding is that we want to
> search through the versioned files, not files contained in the working
> directory and not history (hgrep? Bug #161250). Is this correct?
I think at the moment it searches the versioned files. Searching
history would also be good.
>
> hg grep searches history. I am not sure if it has something for searching versioned files.
> Does anyone know how git grep behaves?
>
> What are the important command line options that need to be supported? I
> am assuming it should at least have the commonly used options from unix
> grep.
I think it would be worth getting it in even with no options, or
perhaps just --ignore-case.
On 20 February 2010 00:15, Parth Malwankar <email address hidden> wrote:
> I could have a look at this in case vila (or anyone else) is not
> planning to work on this anytime soon.
>
> I was thinking that this could probably be developed as a plugin and in
> a month or so if there are no issues it could be proposed for a merge.
There already is a plugin; this bug just wants it to be included in
bzr's core, or turned into a shipped plugin.
> Regarding the 'bzr grep' command, my understanding is that we want to
> search through the versioned files, not files contained in the working
> directory and not history (hgrep? Bug #161250). Is this correct?
I think at the moment it searches the versioned files. Searching
history would also be good.
>
> hg grep searches history. I am not sure if it has something for searching versioned files.
> Does anyone know how git grep behaves?
>
> What are the important command line options that need to be supported? I
> am assuming it should at least have the commonly used options from unix
> grep.
I think it would be worth getting it in even with no options, or
perhaps just --ignore-case.
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