Question

When you use Tortoise SVN to update from the repository to your local machine, you get the popup that shows what files were added/updated/etc. I’m looking to get hold of that text programmatically.

Do you know if it’s dumped to a temporary file or a log file? Or is there another way to get hold of that text? I can’t see anything in the settings that provides for it.

Answer 1

One idea might be to use the svn.exe console program, like this

svn.exe log -r head -v <svn-dir>

• -r means the revision (head being the newest)
• -v being verbose (which includes the file names)
• <svn-dir> is a dir that contains a svn checkout ( this can be omitted if you run the command inside such a dir).

There are also an -xml switch that might be useful if you want to massage the data in some way

This requires that you have a svn.exe in you path. It seems to be possible to find the svn.exe exec. here