Hi Stefan / Konstantin, Thanks for the responses. The data mining tool looks promising, and as you state, allows for some "extra" goodness too.
Gavin. On 14/04/2011, at 2:20 AM, Stefan Sperling wrote: > 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.
