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"use after free" on tk returned three rows identical on screen — same repository, same title, same snippet — because the same fix landed on three branches and the row carried nothing that differed. The only way to find out which one you wanted was to open all three.

Rows now carry the hash, date, author and branch for a check-in; the status and date for a ticket; the date and author for wiki, forum and technote. A doc or a file is identified by its path and gets nothing, rather than a date nobody asked for.

Decorated by primary key, for the page actually shown: the FTS query groups over a match set that can be thousands of rows, so joining there would decorate all of them to render fifty. On the fleet, decorated AFTER the merge trims — every repository is asked for the full limit so the merge can pick freely, and decorating before it meant 25 indexes times 50 rows to render 50.

One definition of the line, shared by both search pages. They are separate templates, which is why the first version of this reached only the per-repo one. closed check-in: 5cc9306b59 user: dmestas tags: hit-meta

quarry rendered both as first-class surfaces (the docs tab, the file browser) and could find neither. Fossil searches documentation but not source; this does both, from one pass.

One tarball, not a read per file. cat per path costs a subprocess and a store open each: 2,199 files on sqlite is ~31s, against 2.2s for one archive — the tarball is the whole tree in one pass, which is the shape of the question.

Tip-only. Indexing every revision of every file would dwarf the rest of the index many times over to answer a question nobody asks; what a file used to say is a question its own history answers.

ref carries the version, not just the path: a link has to name the check-in the row was indexed at, and resolving a branch name at click time would be a second source of truth about which tree the row describes.

Binaries and files over 1MB are skipped and counted — a search that silently covers less than the tree beside it is the failure this change is about. closed check-in: 8df971b482 user: dmestas tags: tree-search