What we did at UBZ

[Jan Hudec]

On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 09:53:30 -0500, Kevin Smith wrote:
> Martin Pool wrote:
> >
> >It'd be quite nice to have a 'bzr grep' which knew how to search back
> >through history, but that's a different point.  
> >
> 
> It would be even cooler to have:
>   bzr apply <cmd>
> 
> (or whatever you want to name it). Why restrict this to grep, when there 
> are countless other commands someone might want to apply to historical 
> files?

There is one significant difference though -- while grep can be implemented
quite efficiently inside bzr, directly on the weaves and with nice extra
features related to handling the history, apply would have to create
a temporary checkout to run the command on.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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