How do you see recent SVN log entries

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Typing svn log spits out an incredibly long  useless list on a command line  I have no idea why that is the default  If I wanted to read  or even could read  300 entries on the terminal  I wouldn t mind typing svn log --full or something similar    Perhaps the SVN guys are thinking I wanted to feed that output to another program  However  if that is the case  it would make more sense to have the more verbose call for the program - not the terminal user   Anyway  how do I see just some recent activity like the last 5 or 10 entries to see what changed

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limit option  e g    svn log --limit 4  svn log -l 4   Only the last 4 entries

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I like to use -v for verbose mode  It ll give you the commit id  comments and all affected files   svn log -v --limit 4   Example of output    I added some migrations and deleted a test xml file ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r58687   mr x   2012-04-02 15 31 31  0200  Mon  02 Apr 2012    1 line Changed paths   A  trunk java App src database support     A  trunk java App src database support MIGRATE     A  trunk java App src database support MIGRATE remove device sql D  trunk java App src code test xml

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In case anybody is looking at this old question  a handy command to see the changes since your last update   svn log -r   svn info   grep Revision   cut -f 2 -d      HEAD -v  LE  thanks Gary for the comment  same thing  but much shorter and more logical   svn log -r BASE HEAD -v

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But svn log is still in reverse order  i e  most recent entries are output first  scrolling off the top of my terminal and gone  I really want to see the last entries  i e  the sorting order must be chronological  The only command that does this seems to be svn log -r 1 HEAD but that takes much too long on a repository with some 10000 entries  I ve come up this this   Display the last 10 subversion entries in chronological order   svn log -r   svn log -l 10   grep   r 0-9       tail -1   cut -f1 -d     HEAD

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This answer is directed at further questions regarding Subversion subcommands options  For every available subcommand  i e  add  log  status       you can simply add the --help option to display the complete list of available options you can use with your subcommand as well as examples on how to use them  The following snippet is taken directly from the svn log --help command output under the  examples  section    Show the latest 5 log messages for the current working copy directory and display paths changed in each commit    svn log -l 5 -v

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As you ve already noticed svn log command ran without any arguments shows all log messages that relate to the URL you specify or to the working copy folder where you run the command   You can always refine limit the svn log results    svn log --limit NUM will show only the first NUM of revisions  svn log --revision REV1  REV2  will show the log message for REV1 revision or for REV1 -- REV2 range  svn log --search will show revisions that match the search pattern you specify  the command is available in Subversion 1 8 and newer client   You can search by   revision s author  i e  committers username   date when the revision was committed  revision comment text  log message   list of paths changed in revision

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Besides what Bert F said  many commands  including log has the -r  or --revision  option  The following are some practical examples using this option to show ranges of revisions   To list everything in ascending order   svn log -r 1 HEAD   To list everything in descending order   svn log -r HEAD 1   To list everything from the thirteenth to the base of the currently checked-out revision in ascending order   svn log -r 13 BASE   To get everything between the given dates   svn log -r  2011-02-02   2011-02-03    You can combine all the above expressions with the --limit option  so that can you have a quite granular control over what is printed  For more info about these -r expressions refer to svn help log or the relevant chapter in the book Version Control with Subversion

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To add to what others have said  you could also create an alias in your  bashrc or  bash aliases file   alias svnlog  svn log -l 30   less    or whatever you want as your default

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Pipe the output through less or other pager   svn log   less

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