# Indexing Source Control Repositories

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-source-control-repositories/27584>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 18, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-source-control-repositories/27584 "2015-08-18T12:36:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Avi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Avi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Avi)\
**Post date:** [August 18, 2015, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-source-control-repositories/27584/1 "2015-08-18T12:36:47Z")

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Hi,

I am a new elastic search user. Just installed it today. I have previously been using opengrok to index our source control repositories and am looking at an alternative.

Basically we use a bunch of various version control systems, Git, SVN, HG, and TFS and would like to set up deep indexing on these repositories.

1. How do I go about indexing these different repositories? I have come across [https://github.com/plombard/SubversionRiver](https://github.com/plombard/SubversionRiver) for svn and [https://github.com/zzet/elasticsearch-git](https://github.com/zzet/elasticsearch-git) for git. However I have read a blog post ([https://www.elastic.co/blog/deprecating-rivers](https://www.elastic.co/blog/deprecating-rivers)) stating that rivers are deprecated.

Regards,  
Avi

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**Author:** ![damageco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@damageco](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/damageco)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 2:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-source-control-repositories/27584/2 "2016-02-11T14:50:23Z")

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Up ! Same question for me. Any input from the community ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-source-control-repositories/27584/3 "2017-07-05T23:17:11Z")

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