Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Feature request: monotone grep

[Hendrik Boom]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:34:09PM +0000, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> Shaun Jackman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > 2005/11/8, Bruce Stephens <address@hidden>:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> I'd worry that people would want to use other flags of grep, and
> >> then where do you stop?
> >
> > I think the same argument can be made of `montone diff', but it's
> > such a useful task that some basic form of the command within
> > monotone would be a benefit. Most of the time I call GNU grep simply
> > as `grep', so I wouldn't worry terribly about the extra options.

Occasionally I go so far as to specify -i

> 
> I imagine it's as much expectations as utility.  I expect to be able
> to do "diff", but I don't expect to be able to grep through versions
> of files.  Maybe some SCMs provide that, and I just happen not to have
> used those?
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Perhaps there should be a standard way for monotone to call out to
> > helper scripts, where `monotone grep', for example calls out to the
> > script `monotone-grep' -- in /usr/share/monotone/bin or the path if
> > that fails -- with all the necessary information provided on the
> > command line and in the environment.
> 
> That idea came up before, and didn't get much support, IIRC.  I think
> a problem is that everyone's monotone could be different, so it's
> difficult to document and support, and there's the potential of
> clashing command names and things.
> 
> On the other hand, Mercurial and Bazaar-ng have that kind of thing,
> and I imagine it works well enough for them.  Maybe things are
> different now?

I guess one thing to consider is whether a script-calling feature
like this will forestall a lot of niggly feature requests.
Or are lua-hooks enough?

-- hendrik