[Python-apps-team] Bug#482115: hg grep isn't worth a shell script

[Francois-Denis Gonthier]

Package: mercurial
Version: 1.0-4
Severity: normal

In a moderate size repository, hg grep consumes too much memory to be
really usable.  The repository I use has 884 revisions and hg grep for
anything makes Mercurial consume 70% of my memory before I get bored
and kill it.

A simple shell script grepping each changeset is more efficient...

Beside this observation, I can provide more informations on demand,
but I can't upload my repositories.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers oldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-486
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mercurial depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-11     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  mercurial-common              1.0-4      Scalable distributed version contr
ii  python                        2.5.2-1    An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-support                0.8.1      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  ucf                           3.006      Update Configuration File: preserv

Versions of packages mercurial recommends:
ii  kdiff3                        0.9.92-2   compares and merges 2 or 3 files o

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