SVN Repository Search [closed]

Question

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_ .

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

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.

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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.

We use http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/

1. Create git-svn mirror of that repository.
2. 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.

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 > 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.

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