Search for a file name (pattern) in svn repository (not in checked-out directories)

[Arun Jain]

How do you search for a file or folder in the SVN repository using TSVN.

I know one of the way, is - Show Log and search from there. But that's for already checked-out files.

But I want to be able to search in the repository. (without checking-out in local)

For example,
I want to search for all files matching a pattern (regex) like "*blueprint*.doc" in some path of the repository (say svn.test.com/branches/docs), I don't want to checkout each and every file and directory under that path just for searching purpose.

So how do I search the repository directly ?

Thanks in advance.

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[Simon Large]

On 15 May 2012 11:24, Arun Jain <ak...@live.com> wrote:
> How do you search for a file or folder in the SVN repository using TSVN.
>
> I know one of the way, is - Show Log and search from there. But that's for already checked-out files.
>
> But I want to be able to search in the repository. (without checking-out in local)
>
> For example,
> I want to search for all files matching a pattern (regex) like "*blueprint*.doc" in some path of the repository (say svn.test.com/branches/docs), I don't want to checkout each and every file and directory under that path just for searching purpose.
>
> So how do I search the repository directly ?

As far as I know you can't. There is no server API that would allow
TortoiseSVN or any other client to do that.

Simon

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[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Arun,

Von: Arun Jain [mailto:ak...@live.com]
>
> How do you search for a file or folder in the SVN repository using TSVN.
>
> I know one of the way, is - Show Log and search from there. But that's for
> already checked-out files.

No, you can also "Show Log" from the Repository Browser, no need to check out first.

> But I want to be able to search in the repository. (without checking-out
> in local)
>
> For example,
> I want to search for all files matching a pattern (regex) like
> "*blueprint*.doc" in some path of the repository (say
> svn.test.com/branches/docs), I don't want to checkout each and every file
> and directory under that path just for searching purpose.
>
> So how do I search the repository directly ?

SVN itself does not provide that functionality.

Workarounds are:
- Use the "Show Log" on the Repository Browser directly for the URL.

- Use "svn ls url" for the repository root, and then pipe the output through "grep" or a similar tool.

- There's 3rd-party software which allows to search SVN repositories (I tested none of them myself...):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/svn-search/
http://svnquery.tigris.org/
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/
http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/RepoSearchPlugin

- You can create a git-svn mirror of the repository, and then apply any of the solitions for searching in a GIT repository.



Best regards

Markus Schaber
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