keyword search on hg log

Matt Mackall mpm at selenic.com
Wed Mar 28 23:06:27 CDT 2007


On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:30:37PM -0500, TK Soh wrote:
> A couple of things I noticed on hg log --keyword :
> 
> 1. hg log -h doesn't mention what fields the keyword search will be
> performed against, namely the author, description and list of changed
> files.
> 
> 2. there appears to the a limit of 20 changes files where keyword
> search will look into. This explains why the search failed when I
> tried to look for the changeset on some files I added awhile back. Any
> special for this limit?

No idea why that's there. Guess I put it there, but I couldn't tell
you why.

Feel free to fix it. It's also in hgweb.

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