21Viewing the Log

When you are working as part of a project team, many people will be making changes and committing them to the repository. Depending on the size of your team and how often they commit, there might be dozens of changes every day. If you have been away from the project for a while, or even as part of your daily routine, you might want to check what has been committed recently.

Subversion’s log stores every change ever committed to the repository. To see recent changes, you can ask Subversion to show the log for your working copy. Subversion shows changes in reverse chronological order, starting with the most recent change and then working backward. This might be a long list of changes—for the command-line client you should pipe ...

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