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How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Hi, I checked the Subversion FAQ but I can't see how to grep the whole
repository for a particular string. Ideally, I would like something like
% svngrep foo file:///path/to/repo
something.c:r3-r10:blah blah foo blah
something.c:r2:blah blah foo blah fa
another.c:r3-r5:boo buu foo
so it would list the filename and the range of revisions between which it
contained that string. Or something like that.
I could manually check out every revision of the repository since r1 and grep
all of them, but that seems wasteful. Is there an efficient way to search the
whole repository for a string from the command line?
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Ed Avis <ed...@waniasset.com>
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Re: How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Posted by Stephane Bortzmeyer <bo...@nic.fr>.
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 03:30:00AM +0200,
Lutz Dornbusch <sv...@yogasurftech.de> wrote
a message of 30 lines which said:
> outputs all(!) files from all(!) revisions
Apparently no, only from the last revision.
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RE: How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Posted by Engebakken Geir <ge...@edb.com>.
As far as I can see this script only checks current revisionid, it doesnt examine the history of the repository!
Geir
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Subject: Re: How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Ed Avis wrote:
> Hi, I checked the Subversion FAQ but I can't see how to grep the whole
> repository for a particular string. Ideally, I would like something
> like
>
> % svngrep foo file:///path/to/repo
> something.c:r3-r10:blah blah foo blah
> something.c:r2:blah blah foo blah fa
> another.c:r3-r5:boo buu foo
>
> so it would list the filename and the range of revisions between which
> it contained that string. Or something like that.
>
> I could manually check out every revision of the repository since r1
> and grep all of them, but that seems wasteful. Is there an efficient
> way to search the whole repository for a string from the command line?
>
Hi,
I recently found this small script and it worked for me, however it is not rocket-science, but outputs all(!) files from all(!) revisions and greps, however if you do not have so many files inside, it may work.
<http://burningthornbush.blogspot.com/2007/11/small-tool-for-searching-in-svn-repos.html>
Greetings,
Lutz
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RE: How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Posted by Ed Avis <ed...@waniasset.com>.
Lutz Dornbusch <sv...@yogasurftech.de> wrote:
>I recently found this small script and it worked for me,
>however it is not rocket-science, but outputs all(!) files
>from all(!) revisions and greps, however if you do not have so
>many files inside, it may work.
>
><http://burningthornbush.blogspot.com/2007/11/small-tool-for-searching-in-svn-repos.html>
Thanks - my repository is quite large and has lots of history, so I think this tool would be too slow. I supposed there would be a tool to search the repository directly for a string without checking out every version. It was easy to do in CVS :-p.
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Re: How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Posted by Lutz Dornbusch <sv...@yogasurftech.de>.
Ed Avis wrote:
> Hi, I checked the Subversion FAQ but I can't see how to grep the whole
> repository for a particular string. Ideally, I would like something like
>
> % svngrep foo file:///path/to/repo
> something.c:r3-r10:blah blah foo blah
> something.c:r2:blah blah foo blah fa
> another.c:r3-r5:boo buu foo
>
> so it would list the filename and the range of revisions between which it
> contained that string. Or something like that.
>
> I could manually check out every revision of the repository since r1 and grep
> all of them, but that seems wasteful. Is there an efficient way to search the
> whole repository for a string from the command line?
>
Hi,
I recently found this small script and it worked for me, however it is
not rocket-science, but outputs all(!) files from all(!) revisions and
greps, however if you do not have so many files inside, it may work.
<http://burningthornbush.blogspot.com/2007/11/small-tool-for-searching-in-svn-repos.html>
Greetings,
Lutz
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RE: Re: How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Posted by Michael Maxwell <mm...@casl.umd.edu>.
Ed Avis <ed...@waniasset.com> wrote:
> Hi, I checked the Subversion FAQ but I can't see how to grep the
> whole repository for a particular string.
Yeah, I used to do that under RCS using the ordinary grep...
I see someone gave a pythonic way of doing it. That's probably better than the shell script I wrote to do it. I don't think I still have that around, but it went something like this:
for version_num in `svn -q log <fname> | grep the version numbers | cut the version numbers out` ; \
do echo $version_num ; \
svn cat -$version_num <fname> | grep <my_string> ; \
done
Mike Maxwell
CASL/ U Md
RE: How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Posted by Ed Avis <ed...@waniasset.com>.
>grephistory.py can be downloaded at
><http://www.bortzmeyer.org/files/grephistory.py>
>
>It is partially documented (in French only) at
><http://www.bortzmeyer.org/voyage-temporel-code-avec-le-vcs.html>.
Thanks!
You might want to change the name though, because it looks like 'grephistory' is already taken by another program.
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Re: How to grep the whole repository for a string?
Posted by Stephane Bortzmeyer <bo...@nic.fr>.
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 02:04:47PM +0000,
Ed Avis <ed...@waniasset.com> wrote
a message of 18 lines which said:
> Hi, I checked the Subversion FAQ but I can't see how to grep the
> whole repository for a particular string.
% grephistory.py -a getaddrinfo echoping.c
"getaddrinfo" was added (as "getaddrinfo") in echoping.c at revision 152
grephistory.py can be downloaded at
<http://www.bortzmeyer.org/files/grephistory.py>
It is partially documented (in French only) at
<http://www.bortzmeyer.org/voyage-temporel-code-avec-le-vcs.html>.
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