How to get svn log from remote repository without checking files out

Question

I have over 100 repos and want to retrieve their full log without checking these repos into my computer.

I know svn log is producing the log file but how can I pass url, username, pass as args?

Answer 1

You don't need to checkout a working copy to view the revision log.

The command that you look for is svn log. Here is an example:

svn log https://svn.example.com/repos/MyRepository/MyProject/trunk

Read the documentation: SVNBook | Examining History.

Answer 2

 svn log -l 1 svn+ssh://<repo_address>/trunk

that can be different from your local repo ./trunk

you can encapsulate it in a bash script within a "for loop" of each repo reading from a file

while read repo
do
  svn log -l  1 "$repo"
done < list_of_repo.txt