Title of the presentation: The pain of versions - Searching within one or more repositories

Category: Powertrack Subversion

Level: Beginner

Date and Time: Thursday, 16th October 2008, 11:55 a.m. - 12:40 p.m.

Abstract: Often a problem occurs to search for files or their contents within a Subversion repository. Based on existing frameworks like Lucene, Quartz, SVNKit etc. it is possible to create a search engine which scans multiple repositories and provides the contents and so it is possible to search within multiple repositories. This enables to search in a simple and fast way.

SupoSE (Subversion Repository Search Engine) offers exactly such kind of functionality. The aim is the introduction of the search engine and its concepts and to show which possibilities exist and which not. Feedback of the auditorium would be welcome to see which enhancements are needed and which might be superfluous.

Karl Heinz Marbaise is a freelance software development consultant with focus on J2EE projects (JBoss, Hibernate, Axis2, JUnit, TestNG, Ant, Maven2, Continuum, Hudson etc.) and of course software configuration management with OpenSource tools like CVS, Subversion, SVK etc.

Furthermore he is an experienced trainer and consultant and advises many different companies in Subversion, branching strategies or in migration from other tools like ClearCase to Subversion.