Is it possible to look back through the history of a Subversion repository for files of a certain name (even better would be for them to have a wildcard search)?
I want to see if a .bat file has been committed to the repository at some point in the past but has since been removed in later updates. Even a dump of the file history at each revision would work, as I could just grep the output. I have looked through the manual but could not see a good way to do this.
The logs for each commit are descriptive, so I cannot just look through the log messages to see what modifications were done. I presume Subversion does have a way of retrieving this?
Best Answer
TortoiseSVN can search the logs very easily, and on my system I can enter ".plg" in the search box and find all adds, modifies, and deletes for those files.
Without Tortoise, the only way I can think of doing that would be to grep the full logs or parse the logs and do your own searching for 'A' and 'D' indicators on the file you are looking for (use
svn log --verboseto get file paths).