Re: Searching via git grep?

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Have you considered searching public inboxes via git grep?

Not yet...

> For a big server lore.kernel.org with a lot of searches and a lot of
> clients it might not make sense.  But for home use where searches are
> rare and the indexes can not be kept in ram, but the mailbox might fit
> git grep sounds attractive?
> 
> I performed a preliminary test and just running git grep manually and
> I was search all of the git mailling list archive pretty much
> immediately.
> 
> For v1 it is just 'git grep <regexp> HEAD'
> For v2 it is 'git --rev-list --all | xargs git grep <regexp>'
> 
> If this sounds reasonable to you I will take a look at what it takes to
> wire that up over the next while.

Having something like this on a potentially public-facing web UI
seems like a liability support-wise(*).

However, I'd be open to having this as a command-line tool.
Maybe in the scripts/ directory for one-off scripts...
If I were building a personal mail tool, I could use
scripts/dupe-finder as a starting point.


(*) I would also caution against having personal mail accessible
over http://localhost/ on any port without a password; as
there's attacks on browsers which could hit them.