How do I see the last 10 commits in reverse-chronological order with SVN?

Question

Using the SVN command line, is there a way to show the last X number of commits along with commit messages, in reverse-chronological order (newest commit first)?

Solution 1

svn log --limit 10

or

svn log -l 10

Further googling uncovered the answer. svn log lists in reverse-chronological order by default.

Solution 2

To clarify the previous answers - note that svn log by default only shows the commits up to the revision of your working copy (latest svn update, run svn info to see). So yes, if it's OK for you to download all commits first, this combination will work:

svn update

svn log -l 10

However, I'm mostly interested in showing the ALL latest commits without first updating my working copy, so I mostly compare my log to HEAD falling:

svn log -l 10 -r HEAD:1

It makes a huge difference to me.

Solution 3

A shortcut -l exists for --limit

# show last 10 logs
svn log -l 10

Solution 4

To see them in chronological order:

svn log -r1:HEAD

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Comments

[user229044]

SVN has really useful built-in help. svn help log would probably be even faster than a Google search.

[Shyam K]

This command seems to return only the last but one(not the latest) commit messages. For eg the latest commit is r901 but it returns only till r900. Just wanted to check if this was the standard or an error. Also svn log -l10 <URL of your repository> would return the latest(r901) also.

[Owl]

This is the correct answer, the other answers don't show my latest commits.

[Owl]

This isn't the right answer, this wont show the latest commits, and that could be very misleading.

[Owl]

It doesn't though. yegor256's answer is the correct one.

[Owl]

The -r HEAD:1 is key.