Question

How do I a query to list out all commits by a user to a Subversion repository?

I would like to find all commits I have ever done to the Subversion repository, not just commits in the current snapshot. More importantly, I would like to organize the file lists by the SVN comment used while committing.

I am thinking maybe a Python or shell script that would parse the output of

svn log | grep username

to extract revisions and then pipes the output to:

 svn log -r [revision numbers go here]

Maybe some scripting gurus can help me out..

Answer 1

I guess that the following would be a good starting point.

svn log -v --xml --with-all-revprops URL_OF_REPO

It will output entries in an XML log like the following (generated on a test repository).

D:\temp\co-test-repo>svn log -v --xml --with-all-revprops --username AWXGX  file:///d:/svn/repos/test-repo
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<log>
    <logentry
       revision="2">
        <author>AWXGX</author>
        <date>2010-05-05T19:20:34.062500Z</date>
        <paths>
            <path
               kind="file"
               action="A">/src/main/java/org/pers/OtherClass.java</path>
        </paths>
        <msg>add another class</msg>
    </logentry>
    <logentry
       revision="1">
        <author>AWXGX</author>
        <date>2010-05-05T19:20:00.578125Z</date>
        <paths>
            <path
               kind="dir"
               action="A">/src/main/java/org</path>
            <path
               kind="file"
               action="A">/src/main/java/org/pers/SomeClass.java</path>
            <path
               kind="dir"
               action="A">/src</path>
            <path
               kind="file"
               action="A">/pom.xml</path>
            <path
               kind="dir"
               action="A">/src/main</path>
            <path
               kind="dir"
               action="A">/src/main/java</path>
            <path
               kind="dir"
               action="A">/src/main/java/org/pers</path>
        </paths>
        <msg>creation of project files</msg>
    </logentry>
</log>

Then do an XSLT transformation to output like you want. I hope this helps.

EDIT: I removed the --username that is only used for authentification puposes, nevertheless the command can still be used (I tried it on a real repository). The filtering on a user has then to be done using XSLT.