I’m using SVN commit comments to associate some keywords to the commited files. I’m

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I’m using SVN commit comments to associate some keywords to the commited files. I’m

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I’m using SVN commit comments to associate some keywords to the commited files. I’m trying now to find all commited files – in any revision – having a specific keyword in the comment. Is it possible ?

Thanks by advance !

EDIT for more info : I can use TortoiseSVN (from my local, Windows Seven 64bit) or Command Line (from our integration server, linux)

Edit again : “show log” in tortoise don’t let me searching from any date. Right now I can’t search from last year… but only from 15/02/2012… Any way to fix that ?

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FINAL ANSWER :
I finally made it work as I wanted. I wanted to get all these logs to use them for svn exports. The final script is named ExportAllRevisionsFromKeyword.sh :

    #!/bin/sh
    if [ ! $1 ];then echo "No keyword specified. Needs for example a ticket number : PROJECT-XXX. The command will be : ./SearchCommitsFromComment.sh PROJECT-XXX";exit;fi
    cd /root/PROJETS/myproject/
    SEARCH=$1
    echo "Searching revisions committed with keyword "$SEARCH
    svn log | awk '{
      if ( $1 == "------------------------------------------------------------------------") {
        getline
        REVISION = $1
      }
      else {
        if (match($0, SEARCH)) {
          print "Keyword found in " REVISION ". Export coming..."
          system("./var/batchesFolder/svnxport.sh . " substr(REVISION,2) " var/batchesFolder/sorties/svnExports/" SEARCH)
        }
      }

    }' SEARCH="$SEARCH"

As you can see I’m calling another script. It was inspired by Julien Falconet’s tutorial, named svnxport.sh :

    #!/bin/sh
    # svnxport.sh
    # Export only modified files in SVN
    #
    #  Copyright (C) 2009 by Julien Falconnet
    #  http://www.falconnet.fr
    #
    #  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    #  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    #  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    #  any later version.
    #
    #
    #BEWARE : This script does not operate correctly with files whose filename contains spaces
    # tests for parameters
    if [ ! $1 ];then echo "svnxport : No source specified. Needs : source revision target_directory";exit;fi
    if [ ! $2 ];then echo "svnxport : No revision specified. Needs : source revision target_directory";exit;fi
    if [ ! $3 ];then echo "svnxport : No target_directory specified. Needs : source revision target_directory";exit;fi
    # check if the target_directory allready exists
    #if [ -d $3 ];then echo "svnxport : target_directory '$3' allready exists. Remove it or change target_directory parameter.";exit;fi


    # we use svn diff to select changed files between $2-1 and $2 revisions and only keep those updated or added.
    sourceDir=$1
    revision=$2
    previous=$(($revision - 1))
    targetDir=$3
    escapedSourceDir=$1
    if [ $escapedSourceDir == '.' ]
    then
      escapedSourceDir='\\.'
    fi


    echo "Processing : source($sourceDir), revision($revision), target_directory($targetDir)"

    # Then the 'for' separate status from filename (here is the problem with file with blanks)
    for myfile in `svn diff -r $previous:$revision --summarize $sourceDir | grep -e '^M ' -e '^A '`
    do
    if  [  "$myfile" = "M"  -o  "$myfile" = "AM" -o "$myfile" = "A" -o "$myfile" = "." -o -d $myfile ]
    then
        # we ignore the status, and the directory to update
        continue
    else
        #we focus on true changed files
        #first we create needed directories for the current file
        #note that we use a relative directory system
        outfile=`echo $myfile |sed "s|$escapedSourceDir||g"`
        dir="$targetDir/$outfile"
        mkdir -p $(dirname $dir)
        #then we export the file
        svn export --force $myfile $targetDir/$outfile >> /dev/null
        echo "export $targetDir/$outfile "
    fi
    done
    # List other files. Changed but not exported. Mainly the deleted ones.
    # Usefull to know which files should be removed and follow weird comportment
    #echo "Watch for : "
    #svn diff -r $previous:$revision --summarize $sourceDir | grep -v -e 'M ' -e 'A ' |sed "s|$sourceDir||g"
    echo $'\n'

And now, the only action to do is cd into my versionned website root, and call
./path/to/scripts/ExportAllRevisionsFromKeyword.sh PROJECT-XXX

It will search any revision committed with comment containing “PROJECT-XXX” keyword, and will export the HEAD revision of files modified by that revision into a new folder : path/to/scripts/sorties/svnExports/PROJECT-XXX

I need to say that Nishant was very helpful with the link he gave to me. Thank you so much ! 🙂