How to get a list of all recent SVN commit messages?

svn history
grw picture grw · Mar 2, 2012 · Viewed 87.4k times · Source

At times I want to revisit a change I committed to SVN a short while back, but don't recall the specific files involved or the revision number. So I would like to see a list of recent commit messages, ideally including the files included in each commit.

I picture going to the root of my working copy and entering something like the following to see the messages and files associated with the most recent 5 commits:

svn log -l5 -v *

Unfortunately, this command requires a single target, and won't accept '*'. I know SVN has the information I want. Is there a simple way to retrieve it?

Answer

Rudi picture Rudi · Mar 2, 2012

You can use svn log -l5 -v <URL of your repository>. svn info can be used to get the root URL for the repository where your working copy is connected to.

Related questions

Update svn checkout to specific date including externals

I want to perform an svn update to a specific date, and I can do this with svn update -r {2010-10-17}. Unfortunately when this encounters an external it will do the update within the external without passing through the …

Read More
How do you get the history of a file/folder property in SVN?

What's the easiest way to determine when a property was set on a file or folder? Basically, I'm looking for an equivalent of "svn blame" that works on properties. The log subcommand enables one to get the complete history of …

Read More
Why is Git better than Subversion?

I've been using Subversion for a few years and after using SourceSafe, I just love Subversion. Combined with TortoiseSVN, I can't really imagine how it could be any better. Yet there's a growing number of developers claiming that Subversion has …

Read More