SVN::Web::Log(3pm)

✨ NAME ✨

SVN::Web::Log — the SVN::Web action that shows you the log messages for a path in your repo 💖

It's a User Contributed Perl Documentation page, bestie, and it's here to spill the whole tea on how logging works.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

You set it up in config.yaml, like so:

actions:
  ...
  log:
    class: SVN::Web::Log
    action_menu:
      show:
        - file
        - directory
      link_text: (view revision log)
...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically? It shows you the log messages — in reverse order — for the interesting revisions of a given file or directory in the repository. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• limit — how many log entries you wanna fetch. Default is 20. Twenty. Not too much, not too little, immaculate number tbh.
• rev — the repository revision you wanna start from. Default is the repository's youngest revision, i.e. it starts at the freshest one. periodt.

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💅 TEMPLATE VARIABLES 💅

These are the lil' variables the template gets to play with:

• context — either "directory" or "file". Pick your fighter.
• at_head — a boolean, true if the log starts with the most recent revision. head empty, no thoughts, just newest rev.
• at_oldest — a boolean, true if the list of revisions (revs) includes the oldest revision for this path. we love a full history moment.
• isdir — a boolean, true if the given path is a directory.
• rev — the repository revision that the log starts with.
• revs — a list of hashes 🫶. Each entry corresponds to a particular repository revision, and has these keys:
  • rev — the repository revision this entry is for.
  • youngest_rev — the repository's youngest revision.
  • author — the author of this change. the main character fr.
  • date — the date of this change, formatted according to "Time and date formatting" in SVN::Web.
  • msg — the log message for this change.
  • paths — a list of hashes containing info about the paths that got changed with this commit. Each hash key is the path name that was modified with this commit. Each key is a hash ref of extra info about the change to this path. These hash refs have the following keys:
    • action — a single letter indicating the action that was carried out on the path. A file was either added "A", modified "M", replaced "R", or deleted "D". one letter, so much drama.
    • copyfrom — if the file was copied from another file, this is the path of the source of the copy.
    • copyfromrev — if the file was copied from another file, this is the revision of the file that it was copied from.
• limit — the value of the limit parameter.

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💀 EXCEPTIONS 💀

None. Zero. Nada. Not a single one. iconic behaviour honestly.

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2003-2004 by Chia-liang Kao <clkao@clkao.org>.

Copyright 2005-2007 by Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>

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okay that's the whole page bestie, no notes 💜 this was perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-04-09, and it's the SVN::Web::Log(3pm) manual — go forth and read those logs, you absolute legend 🌈✨