{"id":290,"date":"2010-11-26T12:34:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-26T12:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/2010\/11\/26\/examining-history-in-subversion\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T07:59:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T07:59:10","slug":"examining-history-in-subversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/examining-history-in-subversion\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Examin History in Subversion (SVN)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Examining History in Subversion<\/h2>\n<p>Your Subversion repository is like a time machine. It keeps a record of every change ever committed and allows you to explore this history by examining previous versions of files and directories as well as the metadata that accompanies them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Several commands can provide you with historical data from the repository:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>svn log<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Shows you broad information: log messages with date and author information attached to revisions and which paths changed in each revision<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>svn diff<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Shows line-level details of a particular change<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>svn cat<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Retrieves a file as it existed in a particular revision number and displays it on your screen<\/dd>\n<dt><strong>svn list<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>Displays the files in a directory for any given revision<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examining History in Subversion Your Subversion repository is like a time machine. It keeps a record of every change ever committed and allows you to explore this&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4044,4050,4046,1122,4047,2624,3113,593,394,4045,4048,4049,213],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-svnsubversion","tag-examin","tag-examin-svn-history","tag-examining-history-in-subversion","tag-guide","tag-historical-data","tag-history","tag-how-to","tag-process","tag-subversion","tag-subversion-history","tag-svn-commit-history","tag-svn-history-examining-command","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29467,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/29467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}