Bazaar Search Language brain dump

[Robert Collins]

On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 23:36 +0100, Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 04:09:04PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 17:45 +1300, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > Two quick post-beer reactions:
> > > 
> > > 1. Rob tells me that he and Andrew have talked a lot about this
> > > between themselves.
> > 
> > Well, I think two things got conflated :P.
> > 
> > Andrew and I haven't talked a lot about something as specific as this;
> > but we have tossed the thing around.
> > 
> > Separately, I've been aiming for a search language in bzr-search, and I
> > think it would be a great shame to end up with two search languages.
> 
> Isn't there already prior art we can use?
> 
> Wouter van Heyst

Indeed; in bzr-search I deliberately use the same style of syntax for
meta-terms that google does - e.g. 'revid:foo' rather than
'revision=foo', and '-bar' to exclude bar rather than 'not bar'.

-Rob

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