AW: Metadata properties searching

I guess this is similar to a question that I posted some days ago:

>Hi all,

>

>Coming from the ClearCase world, I wonder if it is possible to query a
subversion repository for all files that have a certain property (it is a
one line >command that is fairly efficient even for 10000nds of files in
ClearCase). The use case that I am thinking about is to query subversion
which files have >been changed for a certain bug, attaching the bug number
as a property to all files that have been changed in the process of fixing
the bug.

>I think that looking at the changes for a certain transaction is probably
not sufficient: One bugfix may be done as a sequence of svn commits. Using
some >"find snv propget..." might be possible, but is certainly not
efficient.

>Any ideas? Maybe I am missing some point?

The answers I received are

>I've used "svn propget -R svn:mime-type", and it seems to be adequately
efficient. Although I am using it on a WC. But "svn propget -R (property)

> <http://root/of/repository> http://root/of/repository" should work and
probably only does one round-trip to the server.

and

>The svn subcommands proplist and propget both allow the -R (recursive)
flag.

>I'm sure you could use this to get all of your desired files, perhaps
something like:

>svn propget {PROPNAME} -R [URL] | grep '{bug#}'

>And then use the cut command to extract the filenames.

>Or thereabouts...

While this is a possible approach, I still think it is fairly inefficiencent
if you have a large repository.

Georg

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Von: Eilein Grasp [mailto:blackmath@digiverse.net]
Gesendet: Monday, March 07, 2005 2:03 AM
An: users@subversion.tigris.org
Betreff: Metadata properties searching

Is there a way I can search for items in my repository by subversion
properties (metadata) ?

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