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

Powershell has support for XML which eliminates the need for parsing string output.

Here's a quick script I used on a mac to get a unique list of users across multiple repositories.

#!/usr/bin/env pwsh

$repos = @(
    'Common/'
    'Database/'
    'Integration/'
    'Reporting/'
    'Tools/'
    'Web/'
    'Webservices/'
)

foreach ($repo in $repos) {
    $url = "https://svn.example.com:8443/svn/$repo"
    $users += ([Xml](svn log $url --xml)).log.logentry.author | Sort-Object -Unique
}

$users | Sort-Object -Unique