Re: SVN Log

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 04:16, Eric Minick wrote:
> It's running:
>
> svn log --non-interactive -v <%=authArgs%> <%=revString%> <%=url%>
>
> You can look these commands up (and tweak them) by looking in the
> conf/profiles directory. So it's just the traditional svn revision
> history command, and with a good bit of parsing. Parsing revision logs
> tends to be the most complicated part of an Anthill integration with
> source control.

The parsing isn't particularly complicated. The gory details are in 
source/main/java/com/urbancode/anthill/adapter/SubversionRepositoryAdapter.java. 
Subversion output is deliberately easy to parse, and a couple of regular 
expressions is all that's needed.

That code uses the pagelet
source/main/profiles/Unix/unix_subversion/getRevisionsSince.pgl to fire off 
the Subversion command, passing in a timestamp that is the timestamp from 
which revisions shold be obtained. Really for Subversion this should be a 
change number, but the notion that a timestamp is the only way to pinpoint a 
particular state of the repository is nailed into Anthill at a low level, and 
it looked like far too much work to change this.

You can also take a quick peek at ChangesetRevision.java to see how the change 
message is built.
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