How do I search historic mercurial file content?

Question

I've found an issue in my code where something used to be specified, but is no longer, so I want to search for a particular string through the history of the repository.

Is there a way to do this in TortoiseHg? I know it would take a while, but it'd take me longer...

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8334620/how-do-i-search-historic-mercurial-file-content

Answer 1

If you don't mind working with Mercurial via the command line, there's hg grep. It's probably exposed somewhere in the TortoiseHg Workbench, but I don't know.