I have a Mercurial repository with ~800 changesets and I need to find the first changeset where the word Example appeared. The word appears inside a .php file and not on a commit comment etc.
What is the quickest/easiest way to do that?
try hg grep Example *.php
hg grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
search for a pattern in specified files and revisions
Search revisions of files for a regular expression.
This command behaves differently than Unix grep. It only
accepts Python/Perl regexps. It searches repository
history, not the working directory. It always prints the
revision number in which a match appears.
By default, grep only prints output for the first
revision of a file in which it finds a match. To get it
to print every revision that contains a change in match
status ("-" for a match that becomes a non-match, or "+"
for a non-match that becomes a match), use the --all
flag.
options:
-0 --print0 end fields with NUL
--all print all revisions that match
-f --follow follow changeset history, or file
history across copies and renames
-i --ignore-case ignore case when matching
-l --files-with-matches print only filenames and revisions
that match
-n --line-number print matching line numbers
-r --rev search in given revision range
-u --user list the author (long with -v)
-d --date list the date (short with -q)
-I --include include names matching the given
patterns
-X --exclude exclude names matching the given
patterns
use "hg -v help grep" to show global options