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SVN List Comment and Files Changed for a Certain Revision

dennis 4 comments Random, Web Stuff

Aug 18

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.

4 comments

  1. Jonathan Thomas / February 8, 2011

    Many thanks, this helped a lot! Been searching for this all morning, very useful indeed :)

  2. Arvind / May 20, 2011

    svn diff -r :HEAD –summarize

    REVNO = Revision number

    this will be more useful.

  3. igi / November 15, 2011

    I guess you can try svn log [url]. This works for me.

  4. Jasper Silvis / March 8, 2012

    I know my comment is a bit late, but I really found your information useful. We just released our beta and have just a small window to correct mistakes before we release and our engineering testers found 4 errors in my UI.

    One of the changes goes back several revisions, too far back for Jetbrains Idea to show, so using this command line to give me the list of files changed for a specific revision allowed me to backtrack annotations to get to the specific lines I needed to update.

    What I thought was going to take a few days to fix only took a few hours. Thanks again.

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