Aggregate multiple Subversion logs into a single list

Question

I have multiple SVN repositories and I'd like to gather some overall statistics from the logs. Basically I'd like to use Excel to make a graph of the number of commits per day, in all the repositories combined.

What I need is a simple way to fetch all the logs, combine them and get a formatted list with DATE, SVN REPOSITORY NAME and LOG MESSAGE. If that's XML or tab-delimited I can just paste it into Excel and work with that.

Is there a tool for this or am I going to have to write my own scripts?

Answer 1

Instead of all that work, why not just take the three separate logs, note which repository each one came from, and then put them into one big list?

# For each repo:
svn log --xml --verbose > ~/svn-logs/result-$repo.xml

# Then:
cat *.xml > all-results.xml

You can then sort by the timestamps to get a holistic view of what things looked like over time.

Answer 2

Pass the --xml option to svn log.