Re: Search subversion binary content

"Daniel L. Rall" <dlr@finemaltcoding.com> writes:

> > I really need to upload the lucene/libsvn_fs hookup I did in python.
> > It actually scans and indexes all repository history. Doesn't really
> > work on binary files, though. ;-)
>
> Yeah, but you got it -- this is exactly the type of crawler I was referring
> to. Wrapping access -- the "visit" -- to each piece of content in the
> appropriate library (e.g. OLE, PDF, etc.) which can turn it into textual
> data would allow for indexing, and thus allow for searches of that index.

Yep. Man, I'd love to unleash Stellent's Outside In(tm) document
strainers (which Ben and I used to write/support) on a Subversion
indexing engine...

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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato@collab.net>
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