Think globally; talk locally May 11th, 2008

They haven’t heard of Upcoming in Eynsham, so here’s the only online publicity for this event.

Subversion log messages need not be set in stone January 14th, 2008

Simon Willison mentioned a while back a link to help on how to undo a svn commit in subversion (more a kind of internal branching than an actual undo, of course: but that’s subversion). That’s all very well, but how about undoing the log message for a particular commit?
Say you have a codebase that only [...]

Checking the changes for many svn versions, one version at a time October 30th, 2007

Say you want to see both the log and diff of a given svn version, just the differences between it and the previous version, plus log message (i.e. what was committed, and why, for version NUM) The following will work at a bash command prompt:
$ r=NUM; rr=-r`expr $r - 1`:$r; svn log -r$r; svn diff [...]