Searching subversion history (full text)

Question

Is there a way to perform a full text search of a subversion repository, including all the history?

For example, I\'ve written a feature that I used somewhere, but t

Answer 1

I have been looking for something similar. The best I have come up with is OpenGrok. I have not tried to implement it yet, but sounds promising.

Answer 2

I just ran into this problem and

svnadmin dump <repo location> |grep -i <search term>

did the job for me. Returned the revision of the first occurrence and quoted the line I was looking for.

Answer 3

I'm using a small shellscript, but this only works for a single file. You can ofcourse combine this with find to include more files.

#!/bin/bash
for REV in `svn log $1 | grep ^r[0-9] | awk '{print $1}'`; do 
  svn cat $1 -r $REV | grep -q $2
  if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then 
    echo "$REV"
  fi 
done

If you really want to search everything, use the svnadmin dump command and grep through that.

Answer 4

svn log -v [repository] > somefile.log

for diff you can use the --diff option

svn log -v --diff [repository] > somefile.log

then use vim or nano or whatever you like using, and do a search for what you're looking for. You'll find it pretty quickly.

It's not a fancy script or anything automated. But it works.

Answer 5

git svn clone <svn url>

git log -G<some regex>

Answer 6

The best way that I've found to do this is with less:

svn log --verbose | less

Once less comes up with output, you can hit / to search, like VIM.

Edit:

According to the author, he wants to search more than just the messages and the file names. In which case you will be required to ghetto-hack it together with something like:

svn diff -r0:HEAD | less

You can also substitute grep or something else to do the searching for you. If you want to use this on a sub-directory of the repository, you will need to use svn log to discern the first revision in which that directory existed, and use that revision instead of 0.