On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 07:18:46PM +0200, Andreas Krey wrote: > There already were comments on the usefulness of a complete checkout. I > mainly find (resp. found, in the days of CVS, without the path-emulated > tags/branches) it helpful to be able to search the whole repo for usages > of my APIs.
For this purpose there are solutions which perform data-mining directly on the repository and provide full-text search of all files in all revisions via a web interface. Examples are svnsearch (open source) and fisheye (proprietary).