RSS/Atom feed of Subversion commit comments

Question

We have recently introduced version control in Subversion in our development cycle, and a team mate asked me today if it was possible to get all commit comments in an RSS feed. Since I think it's a pretty cool idea, I looked around in the Visual SVN Server option windows, and here on SO, but couldn't find anything relevant. (Most searches on anything with RSS in it here turns to discussions/questions regarding the format itself... unless you have infinite search-fu, which I don't.)

So, is there some (easy) way to publish SVN commit comments in a feed?

Answer 1

As a roundabout way you can set up ViewVC and it provides an RSS feed.

You could also build your own on top of one of the binding libraries quite easily I guess.

Answer 2

To generate an RSS feed with Subversion commits you will need to use a server side application, the simplest one I've come across is PyRSS2Gen (a simple Perl application); http://www.dalkescientific.com/Python/PyRSS2Gen.html and theres a nice tutorial on how to go about using it here: http://www.friday.com/bbum/2006/08/17/howto-adding-an-rss-feed-to-a-subversion-server/

Answer 3

If you just want notifications about commits (not necessarily an RSS feed), you could use CommitMonitor. That tool notifies you of new commits and has a very low memory footprint.