I have been searching all over the net to find something remotely usable. I tried all kinds of HTML based tools for analyzing an SVN repository (commits by users, reports etc) but none of them are user friendly.
I am interested in a desktop client (that does NOT depend on an external svn.exe to be installed on my system) that does just that. Analyze the repository and create reports.
Does anyone know of such a program?
you can look into statsvn which just needs a checkedout workingcopy and a connection to the repo. It will extract tons of informations out of your repository. It is a java project and will run on all architectures. It will also create heatmaps, LOC-graphs and other images to visualize the data.
I've used StatSVN also. It does provide useful stats (have a look at an example output for Ant), but it does require you to have already done a svnlog of the repository and have a working copy checked out to perform the analysis on.