Feature Request: Searching, Searching, Searching

This forum is now locked, since Gold Support is no longer offered.

Moderator: SourceGear

Locked
thomas62j5
Posts: 71
Joined: Tue Aug 17, 2004 7:59 pm
Location: West Coast, USA

Feature Request: Searching, Searching, Searching

Post by thomas62j5 » Thu Oct 07, 2004 12:26 pm

I searched to see if this has been brought up yet, and the closest thing I see is a feature request to search for filenames in vault:

http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic ... +searching

With SQL Server on the back-end, I am hoping for way more search options than just filename searching. What about being able to search for files based on their content? Or being able to search just the diffs? Make SQL Server do the heavy lifting using FT indexes.

For example, just today I realized a change I made to several files a few months ago is causing a problem, and I need to locate all the files where I made this specific change. If I could search the diffs for a specific string, it would make it very easy to locate the files I made this change to.

As it is now, I may try to search the diffs if I can figure out where you guys are storing them in SQL Server. Or possibly modify what I am looking for and download our entire tree, then search my local system files. (This option won't work in cases where I am looking for past changes that would only be found in the diffs.)

Of course I am making some assumptions about how you are storing diffs which may not even be true. ;-)

Summary: Any searching features you can add to vault would be great... :)

jclausius
Posts: 3706
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:17 pm
Location: SourceGear
Contact:

Re: Feature Request: Searching, Searching, Searching

Post by jclausius » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:11 pm

thomas62j5 wrote:As it is now, I may try to search the diffs if I can figure out where you guys are storing them in SQL Server. Or possibly modify what I am looking for and download our entire tree, then search my local system files. (This option won't work in cases where I am looking for past changes that would only be found in the diffs.)

Of course I am making some assumptions about how you are storing diffs which may not even be true. ;-)
Thomas:

We hear you loud and clear on the search request.

As for the diffs, unfortunately, everything (both text and binary) is stored in a compressed, binary format, which SQL Server cannot use for full text search.
Jeff Clausius
SourceGear

jclausius
Posts: 3706
Joined: Tue Dec 16, 2003 1:17 pm
Location: SourceGear
Contact:

Post by jclausius » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:28 pm

Thomas - I've added your post to the list of requests we've had for searching files for text.
Jeff Clausius
SourceGear

Locked