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Checking the changes for many svn versions, one version at a time

jp.stacey 30 October 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 $rr

It looks a bit unwieldy, but you can keep pressing the up arrow and home key, and re-editing NUM, multiple times to look at multiple changes:

Subversion log messages need not be set in stone

jp.stacey 14 January 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?

Think globally; talk locally

jp.stacey 11 May 2008
They haven't heard of Upcoming in Eynsham, so here's the only online publicity for this event.

For anyone in west Oxfordshire (or even west Oxford) the Eynsham Society is running an event about climate change, at 8pm on Wednesday 21st May. From what I can gather—publicity hasn’t been great as you can see, but there was a note up in the local Co-Op—it will be about some of the practical measures we can take to at least mitigate the disasters awaiting us all this century.