How to get a list of all Subversion commit author usernames?

Question

I\'m looking for an efficient way to get the list of unique commit authors for an SVN repository as a whole, or for a given resource path. I haven\'t been able to find an SVN co

Answer 1

I had to do this in Windows, so I used the Windows port of Super Sed ( http://www.pement.org/sed/ ) - and replaced the AWK & GREP commands:

svn log --quiet --xml | sed -n -e "s/<\/\?author>//g" -e "/[<>]/!p" | sort | sed "$!N; /^\(.*\)\n\1$/!P; D" > USERS.txt

This uses windows "sort" that might not be present on all machines.