Section 4.6. Viewing the Logs

4.6. Viewing the Logs

After you have multiple revisions committed to the repository, you will likely find a time when you want to review the history of changes you have made. This can be done using the svn log command, which displays the commit logs for a file. If multiple files are given, Subversion aggregates the logs for all of the files into a single log output, showing the log entries for each revision where at least one of the listed files changed. If a directory is given, SVN will output the log information for not only the given directory, but also all files and subdirectories contained within the directory given.

You can view the log for the hello.c file by running the following.

 $ svn log hello.c ---------------------------------------------------------------- r2 | bill | 2004-07-11 04:45:12 -0500 (Sun, 11 Jul 2004) | 1 line Changed program output ---------------------------------------------------------------- r1 | bill | 2004-07-08 16:28:57 -0500 (Thu, 08 Jul 2004) | 1 line Initial import ---------------------------------------------------------------- 

Looking at the output, you can see that it shows both of the revisions that you have committed, along with the name of the user who made the commit, the time of the commit, the total number of lines that were changed in files that were part of the commit (in this case, just one), and the log message that you gave for each commit.