Re: I want to search my project source code

[Guy Rouillier <guyr-ml1(at)burntmail(dot)com>]

Matthew Wilson wrote:
> I have a lot of code -- millions of lines at this point, written
> over the last 5 years.  Everything is in a bunch of nested folders.
>
> At least once a week, I want to find some code that uses a few modules,
> so I have to launch a find + grep at the top of the tree and then wait
> for it to finish.
>
> I wonder if I could store our source code in a postgresql table and
> then use full text searching to index.  Then I hope I could run a query
> where I ask for all files that use modules X, Y, and Z.

DBMSs are great tools for the right job, but IMO this is not the right 
job.  I can't see how a database engine, with all it's transactional 
overhead and many other layers, will ever beat a simple grep 
performance-wise.  I've used Eclipse for refactoring, but having done it 
once, I'm sticking with grep.

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Guy Rouillier