search function in "hg serve"

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Tue Dec 12 21:03:03 CST 2006


On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:50:03PM -0600, T.J. Yang wrote:
> 
> What exactly I can search in first web page in http://localhost:8000/ ?
> 
> I am hoping  the search field can search any keyword in files added into 
> hg's control.

It can find:

- change revs
- change hashes
- tags
- branches
- keywords in changeset fields:
  - descriptions
  - authors
  - filenames

It can't find dates yet, and it won't search through file contents
(that would make a great DoS attack).

The 'hg grep' command will scan file contents.

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