Is it important to be able to search your version control repository, or is it good enough to be able to search your local sources? If it is important to be able to search the repository, why is it important?
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Is it important to be able to search your version control repository, or is it good enough to be able to search your local sources? If it is important to be able to search the repository, why is it important?
I’d say it definitely is a useful feature to be able to find things in previous revisions – there is a million reasons why one could need that.
The same goes for files that existed in previous revisions but don’t any more in the current revision.
And sometimes it may be important to track down since when (which revision) a variable or configuration setting exists.
That said, I personally have never been in a situation when I have really urgently needed this. Still, I’d say any self-respecting VCS should have a search function, or an external tool available that does the job. As far as I know, this is the case for at least Subversion, Git and Mercurial.