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

svn log -l<commit limit> | grep -C<5 or more lines> <search message>

Answer 2

svn log in Apache Subversion 1.8 supports a new --search option. So you can search Subversion repository history log messages without using 3'rd party tools and scripts.

svn log --search searches in author, date, log message text and list of changed paths.

See SVNBook | svn log command-line reference.

Answer 3

I don't have any experience with it, but SupoSE (open source, written in Java) is a tool designed to do exactly this.

Answer 4

In case you are trying to determine which revision is responsible for a specific line of code, you are probably looking for:

svn blame

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