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CVS search

CVS search
Possible mentors: Christopher Daniel, Tomasz Zarna
Related Project: Platform CVS
Description: The aim of this project is to provide a facility that will allow for searching commit comments. The facility should be able to scan selected CVS project, find commits that match specific query and present them using the Compare Editor.
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Abstract

In huge projects, developers sometimes tend to be confused by the quantity of commits to CVS repository. To document changes or describe a commit, comments are used. To quickly find a commit that is interesting for developer, we should have a search feature (integrated with Eclipse's search dialog) that is able to scan all the commit comments and presents search results in a pleasant way.


Planned List of Ideas for this summer

1. Integration with Eclipse's search feature.

2. One should be able to enter a regular expression.

3. Modular architecture, so in future part of the code can be used by external version control plugins.

4. ...

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