R – Can Microsoft Search Server index a Subversion repository

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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.

Best Answer

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.