Re: searching in subversion repos

["Alex Mac" <lots of mailing lists gmail com>]

On 06/12/06, Richard Boulton <richard lemurconsulting com> wrote:
> > A thought crossed my mind recently about having beagle search inside
> > subversion repos. Would I have to implement that as a backend? I've
> > only written fairly trivial filters so far so I'm not sure how much
> > work that would involve or if it would be practical but it would be
> > quite cool to be able to search back in time through all my code and
> > documents in the repo that I use to store all my work.
>
> I don't know the ins and outs out implementing this for beagle, but being
> able to search through subversion (or CVS) repositories would be a useful
> feature.  Don't forget that such repositories also contain a lot of
> potentially useful information in the form of log messages attached to
> each commit.
>
> I'd encourage anyone thinking of working on this kind of search to take a
> look at the "cvssearch" project (at http://cvssearch.sourceforge.net/) for
> ideas, to avoid having to reinvent the wheel.  In particular, take a look
> at the papers linked to from that page:
>
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~amichail/cvssearch/paper.pdf
> and
> http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~amichail/cvssearch/paper2.pdf

thanks, I'll take a look at those

> You might be able to get the cvssearch code working, but development on it
> has been fairly dead lately due to lack of time.  The ideas described in
> the papers are well worth reading, though.

yeah, I would probably just implement from scratch.

> --
> Richard