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

But svn log is still in reverse order, i.e. most recent entries are output first, scrolling off the top of my terminal and gone. I really want to see the last entries, i.e. the sorting order must be chronological. The only command that does this seems to be svn log -r 1:HEAD but that takes much too long on a repository with some 10000 entries. I've come up this this:

Display the last 10 subversion entries in chronological order:

svn log -r $(svn log -l 10 | grep '^r[0-9]* ' | tail -1 | cut -f1 -d" "):HEAD