Question

After creating a new svn-depot and committing a file I get an empty log. I did the following:

$ mkdir tmp
$ cd tmp
$ svnadmin create depot
$ # copy empty depot to the work repo
$ svn co file:///home/antoras/dev/java/tmp/depot/ work
$ cd work
$ touch test
$ svn add test
$ svn commit -m "fist commit"
$ svn log

After this the only output I get is a single line with --signs. But I wanna have the commit message. What did I wrong and how to solve it?

Answer 1

Try svn log -r HEAD:1 or svn up && svn log instead. Without revision arguments, svn log shows the log up to the revision of the working directory (or the specified paths). After svn commit, the local revision of the committed files is updated – but the working directory has still the previous revision. You can check this behavior with svn info. Try the following command after the commit operation:

svn info . test