Question

Using the command line, I’d like to see all changesets made by a particular user. Is this possible? I’ve looked at the documentation for svn log but can’t see how to do this.

Answer 1

I don’t know of any way to do this using pure Subversion. But you can do it with sed:

svn log | sed -n '/username/,/-----$/ p'

This finds each instance of the username, and then prints everything up to the dashed line which marks the end of a record in the log.

The search pattern is very flexible – you can easily modify it to search for other things. For example,

svn log | sed -n '/Dec 2009/,/-----$/ p'

Would return all commits made in December (by any author).

Edit: If you don’t want the actual commit message, but just the summary metadata, then you can just use grep, in an analogous way to William Leara’s Windows answer:

svn log | grep username