quickly see latest committed file names in svn

Question

Does anybody now a quick way to ask svn the list of the top n most recent filenames added the last commits?

Answer 1

svn log {path} -v --limit {number}

More info: svn log

If you want only the added files you could grep them:

svn log {path} -v -l {number} | grep "^\s+A\s+"

Because the --limit parameter only limits the revisions you could use grep to count the added files for you:

svn log {path} -v | grep -m {max_count} "^\s+A\s+"

But be careful! This could take a long time, because all changes are logged to the console. So I think it's better to set a limit for svn log.

Another way is to add the --xml option and use a XSLT script to parse the added entries.

Answer 2

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