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Re: Is there a simple log/diff frontend (like gitk)?

From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:03:58 -0500

On 4/13/2010 12:32 PM, Thomas Allen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> One thing that I took for granted when doing all of my development in
> Git was the always-reliable gitk which provides cross-platform log and
> diff browsing. I'm sure it does more, but those were the main things I
> used it for.
>
> I am now working with a Subversion repository. Maybe I have not yet
> mastered the "log" command, but I find the output of the following
> two commands to be confusing:
>
> $ svn log -r HEAD
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> r3617 | tallen | 2010-04-12 15:57:35 -0400 (Mon, 12 Apr 2010) | 1 line
>
> full comments + jslint fixes
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> $ svn log | grep tallen # outputs nothing
>
> In general it would be very nice to have a tool to facilitate browsing
> recent revisions and their diffs; I do not need it to help with
> committing my changes or anything along those lines.
>
> So, does anybody know of a simple, cross-platform, open-source
> Subversion browser? I am on a Mac, and it seems that the only options
> are proprietary and heavy, such as Versions and CornerStone...

If you mean cross-platform in the sense that you can use browsers from
different platforms simultaneously, you might like a web front end like
viewvc.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2010-04-13 21:04:30 CEST

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