Search in SVN repository for a file name

Question

The following works for me (svn version 1.4.6)

svn list -R <URL> | grep "<file_pattern>"

If the file is in your working copy, then if you are using svn 1.5:

svn list --depth infinity | grep <filename>

or an earlier version of svn:

find . -name <filename> -not -path '*.svn*'

If you need to find the file in history (deleted or moved):

svn log -v | less

and search for it with:

\<filename><return>

With access to the repo itself use (i.e on your svn host file sytem)

svnlook tree [path_to_repo] | grep [file_name]  

or to search all repos (if you have mulitple repos setup).

for i in \`ls [path_to_repos_dir]`; do echo $i; svnlook tree [path_to_repos_dir]/$i | grep -i [file_or_folder_name]; done 

the option --full-paths will give the full path in repo to the file (if found)

example:

for i in `ls /u01/svn-1.6.17/repos`; do echo $i; svnlook tree --full-paths /u01/svn- 1.6.17/repos/$i | grep -i somefile.txt; done

redirect output to a file if static copy is needed.
assumes using nix OS.

svn list --depth infinity <your-repo-here> to get a list of files in the repo, and then svn cat to get contents. You can add --xml key to list command to make parsing a bit simpler.

Recently I've published my utility to list the repository, that's much faster than "svn ls --depth infinity" approach. Here're the benchmarks. It just calls a function that is available in Subversion internal API, but now accessible through a command line.

So you can run

$ svn-crawler <URL> | grep "<file_pattern>"