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Asked: 2026-06-04T09:57:38+00:00

I was trying use svn to find a checkin using svn log, but it

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I was trying use svn to find a checkin using “svn log”, but it seems like svn log is limited somehow. I started at the root of our source tree, and I did “svn log -l 10” and it gives me revision information for revisions 958 – 949. However, if I do “svn log -r HEAD:900 -l 10”, I get revision information for revisions 998 – 989. Why is that? It seems backwards to me – “svn log -l 10” should give the 10 latest, right? Why do I need all the other parameters to make this work? If I do “svn log -r HEAD” I get just one log entry. I want to be able to get all log entries, then I could grep the results. There must be an easier way?

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    ~$ svn help log
log: Show the log messages for a set of revision(s) and/or file(s).
usage: 1. log [PATH]
       2. log URL[@REV] [PATH...]

  1. Print the log messages for a local PATH (default: '.').
     The default revision range is BASE:1.

    So, by design, it starts at BASE. not HEAD if you use a path.

      2. Print the log messages for the PATHs (default: '.') under URL.
     If specified, REV determines in which revision the URL is first
     looked up, and the default revision range is REV:1; otherwise,
     the URL is looked up in HEAD, and the default revision range is
     HEAD:1.

    If I do “svn log -r HEAD” I get just one log entry. I want to be able to get all log entries, then I could grep the results.

    By all means, don’t limit then:

     svn log HEAD:1
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