Searching a repository

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Daniel

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Feb 9, 2012, 5:56:29 PM2/9/12
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Is it possible to search for a specific file within a respository? Or
is the only way to find a specific file is browsing through the file
tree?

chris

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Feb 9, 2012, 10:18:05 PM2/9/12
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Daniel,
Well, you can search the log for a (partial) file name by typing in
the ‘Search Paths’ field.
[You may need to click the gear (‘⚙’) button to show it.]
This will then give you a revision & path.
You can double-click the path to browse it as a repo or select it &
hit ⌘L to open a sheet with its log or ⌘O to open it in an appropriate
app or ⌘D to see the change or ⌘B to see who did what, etc.
But searching the repository for a file name is problematic as svnX
would need to do an `svn ls` for every folder of every revision in the
repository. So it doesn’t offer this.
You can also use the keyboard to navigate through the repo browser.
[Arrow keys & typing the initial letters of a name to select it.]
[A future feature I’d like to add is to ‘show’ or ‘reveal’ a selected
log-path (or WC-item) in the repo browser.
But it’s tricky as it requires multiple asynchronous requests to the
repo which may each take a long time to complete or even fail.]

Chris
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