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diff --git a/docroot/help_query.html b/docroot/help_query.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9bab797 --- /dev/null +++ b/docroot/help_query.html @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" + "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> +<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<head> + <title>ViewVC Help: Query The Commit Database</title> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="help.css" type="text/css" /> + <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> +</head> +<body> + <div><a href="http://viewvc.org/index.html"><img src="images/viewvc-logo.png" alt="ViewVC logotype" /></a></div> + <table> + <col class="menu" /> + <col /> + <tr><td> + <h3>Help:</h3> + <a href="help_rootview.html">General</a><br /> + <a href="help_dirview.html">Directory View</a><br /> + <a href="help_log.html">Log View</a><br /> + <strong>Query Database</strong> + </td><td> + + <h1>ViewVC Help: Query The Commit Database</h1> + + <p> + Select your parameters for querying the CVS commit database in the + form at the top of the page. You + can search for multiple matches by typing a comma-seperated list + into the text fields. Regular expressions, and wildcards are also + supported. Blank text input fields are treated as wildcards. + </p> + <p> + Any of the text entry fields can take a comma-seperated list of + search arguments. For example, to search for all commits from + authors <em>jpaint</em> and <em>gstein</em>, just type: <code>jpaint, + gstein</code> in the <em>Author</em> input box. If you are searching + for items containing spaces or quotes, you will need to quote your + request. For example, the same search above with quotes is: + <code>"jpaint", "gstein"</code>. + </p> + <p> + Wildcard and regular expression searches are entered in a similar + way to the quoted requests. You must quote any wildcard or + regular expression request, and a command character preceeds the + first quote. The command character <code>l</code>(lowercase L) is for wildcard + searches, and the wildcard character is a percent (<code>%</code>). The + command character for regular expressions is <code>r</code>, and is + passed directly to MySQL, so you'll need to refer to the MySQL + manual for the exact regex syntax. It is very similar to Perl. A + wildard search for all files with a <em>.py</em> extention is: + <code>l"%.py"</code> in the <em>File</em> input box. The same search done + with a regular expression is: <code>r".*\.py"</code>. + </p> + <p> + All search types can be mixed, as long as they are seperated by + commas. + </p> + </td></tr></table> + <hr /> + <address><a href="mailto:users@viewvc.tigris.org">ViewVC Users Mailinglist</a></address> + </body> +</html> |