On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:27:22AM +1000, Gavin "Beau" Baumanis wrote: > I have been doing some work everyone's good friend Mr.Google. > Every blog / article I read all said the same thing; > > Create a file with svn log > (svn log --verbose > svn.log) > Then grep / search the log for the file you're after. > > It takes about 8 minutes just for the log file to be created - which makes > it a slightly painful workflow - just to resurrect an old file. > > Is there not a more convenient way to do this? > > As always thanks in advance. > Gavin "Beau" Baumanis
Hi Gavin, this thread had some interesting technical discussion about this topic: http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-11/0509.shtml One way to work around this limitation is to use a data-mining tool which crawls the repository and fills a relational database with information. This DB can then be queried, often via a web interface. Two such products are "svnsearch" (open source) and "fisheye" (proprietary). They do more than just locating deleted files, though. I think both support full text search of file content of all revisions in the repository, too.
