Hi Mariano,

    for this in Squeak I added a simple menu pick to the Monticello Browser's package list menu called "search history" which opens up a workspace containing the entire history as a flat string.  I then just search using ctrl-f.  You can find it in a current squeak trunk image.

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On Dec 10, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck <marianopeck@gmail.com> wrote:

How many times have you tried to search a string as a comment of a commit in all the history? Myself: many many times. I know we need much better tools for that, store the history in a another way, provide a nicer API, etc etc. And I know there were topics about that. 

However, I would deeply appreciate a very short term solution for ease that. The model side is as simple as this:

| packageName ancestry anscestors substring | 
packageName := 'MyPackageXX'.
substring := 'whatever I want to search'.
ancestry := (MCWorkingCopy allManagers detect: [:each | each packageName = packageName] ) ancestry.  
anscestors := ancestry withBreadthFirstAncestors select: [:each | each isKindOf: MCVersionInfo].
anscestors select: [ :each | each message includesSubstring: substring ]

Do you think it's worth a simple UI tool? Custom inspector of MCAncestry?

Cheers,


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