How to get svn log from remote repository without checking files out

Question

I have over 100 repos and want to retrieve their full log without checking these repos into my computer.

I know svn log is producing the log file but how can I pass url, username, pass as args?

If you don't have the Subversion Book at hand, just try svn help log. — Álvaro González
– Álvaro González, Commented Jul 12, 2017 at 16:02

bahrep · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-12 16:03:39Z

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You don't need to checkout a working copy to view the revision log.

The command that you look for is svn log. Here is an example:

svn log https://svn.example.com/repos/MyRepository/MyProject/trunk

answered Jul 12, 2017 at 15:58

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Clement · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-10 10:31:08Z

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 svn log -l 1 svn+ssh://<repo_address>/trunk

that can be different from your local repo ./trunk

you can encapsulate it in a bash script within a "for loop" of each repo reading from a file

while read repo
do
  svn log -l  1 "$repo"
done < list_of_repo.txt

answered Apr 10, 2020 at 10:31

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