Can Microsoft Search Server index a Subversion repository

Question

Our development team is moving to subverison and we would like to index the content on it.

Currently we use Visual Source Safe and keep the latest source on a shared drive for indexing.

We are also just starting to use Microsoft Search Server 2008 and as Subverison exposes a web interface we wanted to try and index it using the Search server. However the only piece of content that does get indexed is the root page. I suspect this is because it is an XML document that gets served up.

Answer 1

I don't know about SVN's web interface, but you could install a post-commit hook on the subversion server that updates a working copy on a shared drive and keep doing what you did with VSS.

Answer 2

sbi,

Another way to do it would be to use a batch to run the "svn export" command and have the search server come back and index the file system a while later. What do you think?