Question

Is there any way to configure Doxygen to include the log from SVN for a file as part of the output? Basically we enter pretty rigorous log messages into SVN when we do commits, and I’d like those messages to have a section inside the Doxygen output.

Answer 1

I don’t know a simple or easy solution for this but I think you can quickly hack something together.

• First you can generate a HTML file
  from the SVN log using the
  svn2html.xsl stylesheet from the
  svn2cl tool. If you don’t like
  it it’s actually not difficult to
  write something like that as you can
  read in this blog post.
• Second you could somehow modify the
  Doxygen output to include a link to
  the html file generated in step one. I don’t know much about that but maybe the doxygen manual page about customization is a good start.
• Third you could write a small build
  file for your documentation that
  automates step one and two possibly
  using make or a shell script or a batch file.

Not very elegant but a start.