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Bug 27169

Summary: Search on comment field
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Andrew Irvine <airvine>
Component: TeamAssignee: Platform-VCM-Inbox <platform-vcm-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: knut_radloff
Version: 2.1Keywords: helpwanted
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Andrew Irvine CLA 2002-11-26 12:58:58 EST 
It would be usefull if I could search on the comment field to find all files 
updated by a specific update.  For example it is common practice to put the 
bug number into the comment field, thus I should be able to search on this 
text to find all files updated.  Today I have to guess.
Comment 1 Kevin McGuire CLA 2002-11-26 18:10:18 EST 
Cool idea.  It would be slow, but faster than checking by hand.
Comment 2 Andrew Irvine CLA 2002-11-27 08:20:43 EST 
A second approach that would be faster for searches, but more overhead for 
storage would be to create the concept of an update.  An update simply groups 
all files associated with the action.  So if I changed five files for one PR 
the update would store these file file names somewhere.  Other usefull 
information would be the date, the branch and the comment.

For example:
airvine.1  20021126  R2.1  
[comment]
  file1.version
  file2.version
  file3.version


Currently if I look at the Resource History one of the fields I am presented 
is the author.  That field could be changed to be the 'update'; rather than 
seeing airvine, I would see airvine.[number].

Thus if I am interested in airvine.26 I simply view that file and get all the 
information associated with it.  This information could be stored at the time 
of commit, behind the scenes so there is no extra overhead for the user.
Comment 3 Jean-Michel Lemieux CLA 2004-04-29 17:45:24 EDT 
*** Bug 60501 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Michael Valenta CLA 2005-05-09 14:18:40 EDT 
The sync view now supports change sets. If this is not adequate for your 
needs, please reopen.