SVN Repository Search

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Is there any good software that will allow me to search through my SVN respository for code snippets   I found  FishEye  but the cost is 1 200 and well outside my budget

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I do like TRAC - this plugin might be helpful for your task  http   trac-hacks org wiki RepoSearchPlugin

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If you re really desperate  do a dump of the repo  look at  svnadmin dump   and then grep through it   It s not pretty  but you can look around the search results to find the metadata that indicates the file and revision  then check it out for a better look   Not a good solution  to be sure  but it is free     SVN provides no feature for searching past checkins  or even past log files  AFAIK

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Painfully slow  and crudely implemented  but a combination of svn log and svn cat works if you are searching the history of single files or small repositories   svn log filetosearch       grep   r        cut -f1 -d          xargs -i bash -c  echo       svn cat filetosearch -         will output each revision number where file changed and the file  You could always cat each revision into a different file and then grep for changes   PS  Massive upvotes to anyone that shows me how to do this properly

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I do like TRAC - this plugin might be helpful for your task  http   trac-hacks org wiki RepoSearchPlugin

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Update January  2020  VisualSVN Server 4 2 supports finding files and folders in the web interface  Try out the new feature on one of the demo server   s repositories   See the version 4 2 Release Notes  and download VisualSVN Server 4 2 0 from the main download page       Old answer  Beginning with Subversion 1 8  you can use --search option with svn log command  Note that the command does not perform full-text search inside a repository  it considers the following data only    revision s author  svn author unversioned property   date  svn date unversioned property   log message text  svn log unversioned property   list of changed paths  i e  paths affected by the particular revision     Here is the help page about these new search options    If the --search option is used  log messages are displayed only if the  provided search pattern matches any of the author  date  log message  text  unless --quiet is used   or  if the --verbose option is also  provided  a changed path   The search pattern may include  glob syntax  wildcards              matches any single character             matches a sequence of arbitrary characters       abc   matches any of the characters listed inside the brackets  If multiple --search options are provided  a log message is shown if  it matches any of the provided search patterns  If the --search-and  option is used  that option s argument is combined with the pattern  from the previous --search or --search-and option  and a log message  is shown only if it matches the combined search pattern   If --limit is used in combination with --search  --limit restricts the  number of log messages searched  rather than restricting the output  to a particular number of matching log messages

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If you re really desperate  do a dump of the repo  look at  svnadmin dump   and then grep through it   It s not pretty  but you can look around the search results to find the metadata that indicates the file and revision  then check it out for a better look   Not a good solution  to be sure  but it is free     SVN provides no feature for searching past checkins  or even past log files  AFAIK

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If you re searching only for the filename  use   svn list -R file    subversion repository   grep filename   Windows   svn list -R file    subversion repository   findstr filename   Otherwise checkout and do filesystem search   egrep -r  code

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We use http   opensolaris org os project opengrok

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Edit  Tool was already mentioned in another answer  so give all credits to Kuryaki   Just found SupoSE which is a java based command line tool which scans a repository to create an index and afterwards is able to answer certain kinds of queries  We re still evaluating the tool but it looks promising  It s worth to mention that it makes a full index of all revisions including source code files and common office formats

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theres krugle and koders but both are expensive  Both have ide plugins for eclipse

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Painfully slow  and crudely implemented  but a combination of svn log and svn cat works if you are searching the history of single files or small repositories   svn log filetosearch       grep   r        cut -f1 -d          xargs -i bash -c  echo       svn cat filetosearch -         will output each revision number where file changed and the file  You could always cat each revision into a different file and then grep for changes   PS  Massive upvotes to anyone that shows me how to do this properly

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I started using this tool  http   www supose org wiki supose  It works fine just lacking a visual UI  but is fast and somewhat maintained

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I do like TRAC - this plugin might be helpful for your task  http   trac-hacks org wiki RepoSearchPlugin

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theres krugle and koders but both are expensive  Both have ide plugins for eclipse

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Painfully slow  and crudely implemented  but a combination of svn log and svn cat works if you are searching the history of single files or small repositories   svn log filetosearch       grep   r        cut -f1 -d          xargs -i bash -c  echo       svn cat filetosearch -         will output each revision number where file changed and the file  You could always cat each revision into a different file and then grep for changes   PS  Massive upvotes to anyone that shows me how to do this properly

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We use http   opensolaris org os project opengrok

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A lot of SVN repos are  simply  HTTP sites  so you might consider looking at some off the shelf  web crawling  search app that you can point at the SVN root and it will give you basic functionality  Updating it will probably be a bit of a trick  perhaps some SVN check in hackery can tickle the index to discard or reindex changes as you go   Just thinking out loud

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Update January  2020  VisualSVN Server 4 2 supports finding files and folders in the web interface  Try out the new feature on one of the demo server   s repositories   See the version 4 2 Release Notes  and download VisualSVN Server 4 2 0 from the main download page       Old answer  Beginning with Subversion 1 8  you can use --search option with svn log command  Note that the command does not perform full-text search inside a repository  it considers the following data only    revision s author  svn author unversioned property   date  svn date unversioned property   log message text  svn log unversioned property   list of changed paths  i e  paths affected by the particular revision     Here is the help page about these new search options    If the --search option is used  log messages are displayed only if the  provided search pattern matches any of the author  date  log message  text  unless --quiet is used   or  if the --verbose option is also  provided  a changed path   The search pattern may include  glob syntax  wildcards              matches any single character             matches a sequence of arbitrary characters       abc   matches any of the characters listed inside the brackets  If multiple --search options are provided  a log message is shown if  it matches any of the provided search patterns  If the --search-and  option is used  that option s argument is combined with the pattern  from the previous --search or --search-and option  and a log message  is shown only if it matches the combined search pattern   If --limit is used in combination with --search  --limit restricts the  number of log messages searched  rather than restricting the output  to a particular number of matching log messages

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There is sourceforge net projects svn-search   There is also a Windows application directly from the SVN home called SvnQuery available at http   svnquery tigris org

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This example pipes the complete contents of the repository to a file  which you can then quickly search for filenames within an editor   svn list -R svn   svn  gt  filelist txt   This is useful if the repository is relatively static and you want to do rapid searches without having to repeatedly load everything from the SVN server

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Painfully slow  and crudely implemented  but a combination of svn log and svn cat works if you are searching the history of single files or small repositories   svn log filetosearch       grep   r        cut -f1 -d          xargs -i bash -c  echo       svn cat filetosearch -         will output each revision number where file changed and the file  You could always cat each revision into a different file and then grep for changes   PS  Massive upvotes to anyone that shows me how to do this properly

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If you re searching only for the filename  use   svn list -R file    subversion repository   grep filename   Windows   svn list -R file    subversion repository   findstr filename   Otherwise checkout and do filesystem search   egrep -r  code

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I do like TRAC - this plugin might be helpful for your task  http   trac-hacks org wiki RepoSearchPlugin

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Just a note  FishEye  and a lot of other Atlassian products  have a  10 Starter Editions  which in the case of FishEye gives you 5 repositories and access for up to 10 committers  The money goes to charity in this case      www atlassian com starter

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A lot of SVN repos are  simply  HTTP sites  so you might consider looking at some off the shelf  web crawling  search app that you can point at the SVN root and it will give you basic functionality  Updating it will probably be a bit of a trick  perhaps some SVN check in hackery can tickle the index to discard or reindex changes as you go   Just thinking out loud

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Edit  Tool was already mentioned in another answer  so give all credits to Kuryaki   Just found SupoSE which is a java based command line tool which scans a repository to create an index and afterwards is able to answer certain kinds of queries  We re still evaluating the tool but it looks promising  It s worth to mention that it makes a full index of all revisions including source code files and common office formats

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Just a note  FishEye  and a lot of other Atlassian products  have a  10 Starter Editions  which in the case of FishEye gives you 5 repositories and access for up to 10 committers  The money goes to charity in this case      www atlassian com starter

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Create git-svn mirror of that repository  Search for added or removed strings inside git  git log -S my line of code  or the same in gitk   The advantage is that you can do many searches locally  without loading the server and network connection

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Create git-svn mirror of that repository  Search for added or removed strings inside git  git log -S my line of code  or the same in gitk   The advantage is that you can do many searches locally  without loading the server and network connection

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theres krugle and koders but both are expensive  Both have ide plugins for eclipse

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I started using this tool  http   www supose org wiki supose  It works fine just lacking a visual UI  but is fast and somewhat maintained

User · Answer

A lot of SVN repos are  simply  HTTP sites  so you might consider looking at some off the shelf  web crawling  search app that you can point at the SVN root and it will give you basic functionality  Updating it will probably be a bit of a trick  perhaps some SVN check in hackery can tickle the index to discard or reindex changes as you go   Just thinking out loud

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This example pipes the complete contents of the repository to a file  which you can then quickly search for filenames within an editor   svn list -R svn   svn  gt  filelist txt   This is useful if the repository is relatively static and you want to do rapid searches without having to repeatedly load everything from the SVN server

User · Answer

A lot of SVN repos are  simply  HTTP sites  so you might consider looking at some off the shelf  web crawling  search app that you can point at the SVN root and it will give you basic functionality  Updating it will probably be a bit of a trick  perhaps some SVN check in hackery can tickle the index to discard or reindex changes as you go   Just thinking out loud

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We use http   opensolaris org os project opengrok

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If you re really desperate  do a dump of the repo  look at  svnadmin dump   and then grep through it   It s not pretty  but you can look around the search results to find the metadata that indicates the file and revision  then check it out for a better look   Not a good solution  to be sure  but it is free     SVN provides no feature for searching past checkins  or even past log files  AFAIK

User · Answer

We use http   opensolaris org os project opengrok

User · Answer

theres krugle and koders but both are expensive  Both have ide plugins for eclipse

User · Answer

There is sourceforge net projects svn-search   There is also a Windows application directly from the SVN home called SvnQuery available at http   svnquery tigris org

User · Answer

If you re really desperate  do a dump of the repo  look at  svnadmin dump   and then grep through it   It s not pretty  but you can look around the search results to find the metadata that indicates the file and revision  then check it out for a better look   Not a good solution  to be sure  but it is free     SVN provides no feature for searching past checkins  or even past log files  AFAIK

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