On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 10:42, Ilan Yaniv <Ilan.Yaniv_at_timetoknow.org> wrote:
> I think that this is something that SVN should do sometime in its
> roadmap for next generations of SVN
You can think it all you want - will you be putting up money,
developers, or your own time to document it, get it approved by the
SVN core group, and then actually implement it?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Levy [mailto:andy.levy_at_gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 5:05 PM
> To: Ilan Yaniv
> Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Search, Search Engine and properties
>
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:45, Ilan Yaniv <Ilan.Yaniv_at_timetoknow.org>
> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In my company we are developing lots of assets, it is NOT code.
>>
>> We have lots of Giga's of animations, graphics etc.
>>
>> There are many tools out there for content management tools, but since
> that
>> we also develops code, I want that the company will use SVN for assets
> too.
>>
>> I offered to use the SVN properties to add metadata for each file.
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Today, if a user is searching for a yellow flower tool, he needs to
> have
>> folder path like: nature\flower\color\yellow.
>>
>> I want to have: yellow and flower as properties for the file.
>>
>> The thing is that I will have to run a search for yellow flower on all
>> assets properties (and there are hundred of thousands of files) it
> will take
>> me hours to find a file.
>
> Haven't you asked this question previously?
>
>> If I had database search, the search will be much faster, but this is
> not
>> possible with SVN.
>>
>> 1) What should I do, maybe SVN is not the tool that I am looking
> for?
>
> It may be the right tool, it may not, or it may be a portion of a
> larger system you build to do this.
>
>> 2) Does SVN have search engine?
>
> No.
>
>> 3) Does SVN have search engine for properties?
>
> No.
>
>> 4) Does SVN have a caching mechanism?
>
> Depending upon your definition of "caching", yes, the .svn directories
> are a cache.
>
>> 5) Does SVN have a caching mechanism for properties?
>
> See above.
>
>> 6) Is there a third party tool (maybe DB) that I can have
> indexing
>> ability to search for files?
>
> If your post-commit hook script updated and maintained a database
> which contains some of the data you're looking to index & search, you
> could then use that database for your searching.
>
>> I guess that this list of questions is enough for now, isn't it?
>
> Please re-read the conversation you had with Mark Phippard on this
> mailing list on December 3.
>
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