C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>Ron Bieber <ron@bieberlabs.com> writes:
>
>
>>5. I'm not sure what this would be called, but it would be very useful
>>for us to be able to query a list of files/revisions that have a
>>property set to a certain value. For example, "give me all files where
>>prop:defectnumber is 100". I know this type of functionality was
>>discussed briefly in relation to tagging but I would use it in a
>>completely different way so this implementation would have to be
>>general.
>>
>>
>
>Ah, I think I must have missed this suggestion in the past. I can
>certainly see the utility of such a feature. Do you envision this
>being something more than you can already do with shell tools? Want
>me to write you a Python-bindings-using script to do this for you?
>:-)
>
>
You can't do this efficently today. We don't have any kind of property
index, so you'd have to walk the whole tree all the way back to r1 to
return such a list. Equivalent in time to dumping the repository.
Yes, of course you can do this with shell tools...
-- Brane
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Received on Sat Jul 24 19:12:30 2004