How do you see recent SVN log entries?

Question

Typing svn log spits out an incredibly long, useless list on a command line. I have no idea why that is the default. If I wanted to read (or even could read) 30

Answer 1

To add to what others have said, you could also create an alias in your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file:

alias svnlog='svn log -l 30 | less'

or whatever you want as your default