The Fossil SCM currently doesn't support grepping through the repository. The only way to find code, is to check out the whole repository into a disk through "fossil deconstruct c:\temp_fossil", and grep through the files.
To avoid writing the files to disk and improve performance, I was thinking of creating a temporary disk in RAM.
Does someone know of a way to do this in Windows (XPSP3)?
Thank you.
I've been using DataRAM RAMDisk for a few years. I use it for scratch/temp space, but one of its features is that it saves the content to a disk image when you reboot, so it is persistent.
Just remember that any RAM you allocate to a RAMDisk will no longer be available to other applications, so if you make it too large you'll hurt system performance. I've set up a 1GB RAMDisk, but have 8GB on Win7-64 so I've got enough to spare.
There are also a few related SU post linked on the right here.
