svn log/diff frontend like gitk?

Wei Hu picture Wei Hu · Dec 17, 2010 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I want to study the changes made to Google Chrome's source code which is managed by SVN. A web interface can be found at http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/

I'd like to know if there's a GUI frontend that allows me to examine the timeline locally. With git I can simply run gitk foo.c.

I tried qsvn and rapidsvn but couldn't figure out how to make them do the job. It seems that I have to import the repository in the GUI, but I already have the repository checked out.

Answer

raincrumb picture raincrumb · Mar 4, 2011

if you like to browse the source from a svn-repo, and you like gitk, why not using gitk? just do

git svn init http://subversion.domain.org/repos
git svn fetch
git svn rebase

and you have the svn repo "converted" to a local git repo, where you can use gitk
If you want to update your local git repo, just rerun fetch & rebase
for more info, take a look at git-svn(1)