RE: SVN Search Feature?

You are right, subversion doesn't provide any kind of search out of the box. Luckily there are at least two open source projects available which cand do a fast full text search against the complete history of a repository. Both use lucene for building an fulltext search index which is then kept up to date through a post commit hook or a timer job.
Using a search index is millions of times faster than searching a local working copy. And with the mentioned projects you can also search metadata (say properties, messages, filenames) und use "google" like search expressions.

You can try http://svnquery.tigris.org/ which is good for searching through source code plaint text or http://supose.soebes.de/ which can also search some office formats and pdf.

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Received on 2009-11-21 17:24:50 CET