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svn_log()

svn_log - Returns the commit log messages of a repository URL

Syntax

array svn_log (string $repos_url, int $start_revision, int $end_revision, int $limit, int $flags)

Arguments

  • repos_url - Repository URL of the item to retrieve log history from.
  • start_revision - Revision number of the first log to retrieve. Use SVN_REVISION_HEAD to retrieve the log from the most recent revision.
  • end_revision - Revision number of the last log to retrieve. Defaults to start_revision if specified or to SVN_REVISION_INITIAL otherwise.
  • limit - Number of logs to retrieve.
  • flags - Any combination of SVN_OMIT_MESSAGES, SVN_DISCOVER_CHANGED_PATHS and SVN_STOP_ON_COPY.

Description

svn_log() returns the complete history of the item at the repository URL repos_url, or the history of a specific revision if start_revision is set. This function is equivalent to svn log --verbose -r $start_revision $repos_url.

Version

PHP PECL svn >= 0.1.0

Return value

On success, this function returns an array file listing in the format of: [0] => Array, ordered most recent (highest) revision first( [rev] => integer revision number [author] => string author name [msg] => string log message [date] => string date formatted per ISO 8601, i.e. date('c') [paths] => Array, describing changed files ( [0] => Array ( [action] => string letter signifying change [path] => absolute repository path of changed file) [1] =>...))[1] =>...