Re: Search subversion binary content

On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:56:33PM -0700, Ted Shab wrote:
> A good example is Spotlight in OS X. It will search
> on zip files, word documents, pdf, etc. Obvioiusly
> Google searches on at least PDF...

Ah, you want a cross-history fulltext search engine that can deal with
non-text content? No, as far as I'm aware, no-ones written anything
specifically, though someone recently mentioned that (something like
ViewCVS?) had a (prototype?) cross-history search that worked for
textual files.

You might be able to fake it by exporting the changed files in each
revision of a repository to a regular filesystem, then pointing a standard
search tool (Spotlight, Index Services, Verity, a Google Appliance...)
at them.

Regards,
Malcolm

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Received on Sat Oct 8 00:11:46 2005