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Asked: 2026-05-15T09:22:37+00:00

I would like to take all the commit messages in my subversion log and

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I would like to take all the commit messages in my subversion log and just concatenate them into one text file, preferably using the svn command line on windows.

Each commit message has this format:

– r1 message
– r1 message
– r1 message

What I would like is something like:

– r1 message
– r1 message
– r2 message
– r2 message
– r3 message
[…]
– r1000 message

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I thought the above was clear, but what I don’t want in the log is this type of info:

r2130 | user| 2010-03-19 10:36:13 -0400 (Fri, 19 Mar 2010) | 1 line

No meta data, I simply want the commit messages.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the --xml parameter of the svn log command, which set the output format to xml, and than easily parse it with some scripting language to produce the text file you need.
    In python something like:

    from xml.dom.minidom import parse
xml = parse("log.xml")
entries = xml.getElementsByTagName("logentry")
for e in entries:
    rev = e.getAttribute("revision")
    msg = e.getElementsByTagName("msg")[0].firstChild.nodeValue
    print "-r" + rev + " " + msg

    Save it as parseLog.py, and then simply launch

    svn log --xml > log.xml
python parseLog.py > revisions.txt
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