Commands by vhotspur (1)

  • Short log format of Subversion history

    Emulate (more or less) Git equivalent of git log --format='tformat:%h %an (%cr) %s' Show Sample Output


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    svnll(){svn log "$@"|( read; while true; do read h||break; read; m=""; while read l; do echo "$l" | grep -q '^[-]\+$'&&break; [ -z "$m" ] && m=$l; done; echo "$h % $m" | sed 's#\(.*\) | \(.*\) | \([-0-9 :]\{16\}\).* % \(.*\)#\1 \2 (\3) \4#'; done)}
    vhotspur · 2012-03-25 20:39:05 0

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