How to search (grep) across all files, in all branches, in all repos in Stash?

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vikingsteve picture vikingsteve · Oct 28, 2015 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

We have a private Atlassian Bitbucket Server (previously known as Stash) hosting our git repos.

How can I search across

  • all source files
  • in all branches
  • in all repos

I really want to avoid the process of checking out all repos locally, doing git pull and then recursive grep.

Some plugins were available in Atlassian Stash for "enterprise search" but they didn't work for us.

If you have gotten this to work, kindly share the steps to set it up :) :)

Answer

Eldad Assis picture Eldad Assis · Oct 28, 2015

We also needed to implement a search for all our Stash projects. Looking into various options, the best implementation was to install a dedicated OpenGrok server.
The server's crontab runs a script every 10 minutes for doing the following:

  1. Get list of all project using Stash API
  2. For each project, get all repositories (using the API again)
  3. For each repository, clone or pull if exists
    • If you need every branch, find all branches and clone for each branch
  4. Once all sources are ready, run the OpenGrok indexing

It works very well for us, and was simple to implement.
I think that eventually, this should be done with a built-in add-on, but at the time, there was none to be found.

I hope this helps.

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