Subversion log by user name

29 April 2012

Ever wanted to know how to get a subversion log by user name? Here’s how to do it…

Step One: Get the revision number of the first commit to the branch

svn log -r1:HEAD -l1 branches/Iteration-ABCD/

The result:

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r12805 | nickh | 2012-03-27 12:26:37 -0600 (Tue, 27 Mar 2012) | 1 line
 
Branching Iteration-ABCD
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Step Two: Get all changes by nickh on trunk since the branch

svn log -rHEAD:12805 -v trunk/ | sed -n '/nickh/,/-----$/ p'

The result:

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r12827 | nickh | 2012-03-28 14:13:57 -0600 (Wed, 28 Mar 2012) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   A /trunk/dev/images/anImageA.png
   A /trunk/dev/images/anImageB.png
   A /trunk/dev/images/anImageC.png
   A /trunk/dev/images/anImageD.png
   M /trunk/dev/images/anImageE.png
   A /trunk/dev/images/anImageF.png
 
Updated branded sites with Customizer images
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r12823 | nickh | 2012-03-28 14:08:56 -0600 (Wed, 28 Mar 2012) | 1 line
Changed paths:
   M /trunk/dev/styles/aStyleA.css
   M /trunk/dev/styles/aStyleB.css
   M /trunk/dev/styles/aStyleC.css
   M /trunk/dev/styles/aStyleD.css
 
Updated branded sites with Customizer styles
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