Question

We just transferred to Subversion from an old version control system and I am just trying to learn it on my windows machine using command line interface first. (I know there is TortoiseSVN but there is more that I’d like to accomplish later… 🙂 )

I just wanted to know if there is an SVN command that I could execute that will list to me all the files that was changed/added/deleted given a particular timestamp?

Example, I would monitor one of the folder in my subversion repository and given a particular date I would like to list all the files that were change/altered/deleted/added/updated in that particular repository.

Say, starting yesterday…I would like to list all those files.

is this possible?

Answer 1

Yes it is:
you use the svn log command with -r switch:

svn log <URL_TO_YOUR_REPO> -r{YYYY-MM-DD}

From SVNs help:

   -r [--revision] ARG      : ARG (some commands also take ARG1:ARG2 range)
                              A revision argument can be one of:
                                  NUMBER       revision number
                                 '{' DATE '}' revision at start of the date
                                 'HEAD'       latest in repository
                                 'BASE'       base rev of item's working copy
                                 'COMMITTED'  last commit at or before BASE
                                 'PREV'       revision just before COMMITTED

Keep in mind it shows you all revisions before that specific date. So to see everything from today (2012-10-15) you should write:

svn log <URL_TO_YOUR_REPO> -r{2012-10-16}:{2012-10-14}