Re: [Savannah-hackers] Searching CVS

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

This is not a feature provided by ViewCVS indeed. Maybe it would worth
contributing it. If you ever need to make advanced search, though, you
will need to make a checkout, or grab the RCS files archvies (built
daily - savannah.gnu.org/cvs-backup/emacs-sources.tar.gz).

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:36:21PM +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
> I was thinking about something very simple in this case, just a search for a
> file name that seemed to be missing from Emacs CVS. It seemed practicle, but
> that might be since I am not very familiar with using CVS software.
> 
> - Lennart
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sylvain Beucler" <address@hidden>
> To: "Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden>
> Cc: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, October 17, 2004 10:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [Savannah-hackers] Searching CVS
> 
> 
> : Hi,
> :
> : I you are thinking about the Bonsai-like feature in ViewCVS, I think
> : this is something pretty time consuming, isn't it (parsing the CVS
> : repositories and adding the log messages to the SQL database)?
> :
> : Therefore we don't plan to support it. Feel free to tell me if I'm
> : mistaken.
> :
> : -- 
> : Sylvain
> :
> : On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 10:06:53AM +0200, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> : > Hi,
> : >
> : > A file (cus-load.el) seem to be missing from my CVS copy of Emacs. I
> went to
> : > ViewCVS (http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/) and thought
> that
> : > maybe I could search for the file there. But there is no search
> facility. I
> : > think it would be could to have sometimes.
> : >
> : > Kind regards,