I’m spending a lot of time with the SVN command line right now because we’re trying to get a product release out the door. One thing that I’ve found handy is the ability to get the comments and list of files changed for a certain revision number. This is fairly commonplace for SVN GUI tools, but it took me a bit to find out how to do this via command line. Here’s how you do it:

svn log -v -r 7447 https://yoursvnurl.com

You can remove the URL if you’re running this command from your local copy.

Just a quick post if you’d like to get a history of SVN commits between an older revision and your current working copy. Get the current revision number from your local copy:

svnversion .

Then get a commit history between and older version and your current version:

svn log -r 6885:8485

Where the number before the colon is your old version and the one after is your current.