Full text search in history?

HansMerkl · Post by **HansMerkl** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:36 am

Hi,
I am maintaining a project with thousands of C files and somehow one function got "lost". Somebody must have deleted it accidentally. I don't know in which file the function was defined originally so I can't restore the file. Somehow I need to find out where the function was defined.
It would be great if there was a full text search that would search for a string in the history. Thinking about it: Is there a full text search at all in Vault?

Hans

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:46 am

There is no full text search available in Vault 3.x. We are working on it for a future release, however.

A possible workaround -- you might be able to Get a previous version of the project from History, or Get a label that was applied previously. Then use Windows Search to locate the contents in the files on your local drive.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 10:57 am

lbauer wrote:There is no full text search available in Vault 3.x. We are working on it for a future release, however.

A possible workaround -- you might be able to Get a previous version of the project from History, or Get a label that was applied previously. Then use Windows Search to locate the contents in the files on your local drive.

That's what I am doing right now. Searching in the history might be a bit too much to ask for from a source control system.

osbornchris · Post by **osbornchris** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:39 am

That's what I am doing right now. Searching in the history might be a bit too much to ask for from a source control system.

I agree, searching the history is a bit much, but boy would it be nice to search the most-recent files full text. I currently use a desktop search tool to index my source code so I can find code snippets when I get to something â€œI know I have done beforeâ€

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 9:46 am

I've added your "vote" to our feature enhancements database.