On Tuesday, 8 Jun 2021 at 20:15, Greg Minshall wrote: > Eric, when you use something RCS-like as your version control system, i > assume that makes grepping to find some old note easy enough. but, > these days i tend to use git. when (assuming) you use git, do you have > some easy way to say "well, i had this code that looked sort of like > this... where was it?"? (sorry, that's really a git question, but ...)
Yes, for SRC (RCS-like), it's straightforward to go into the ,v file and search. For git, I try to make sure the commit message is as informative as necessary and then search on the log. The alternative is git-timemachine which allows me to go back and forward in time looking at the buffer. Having said this, I don't often find myself looking for anything in the history. For major alternatives that might come up during the project, I use branches. But only with git as I have never figured out how to get a branch set up in src. -- : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.6-549-ga0a87d
