SVN - Retrieving Useful Information

Question

We are using Subversion. We would like to

1. search across all commit messages ?
2. monitor the commits on certain important files ?
3. identify files that are never/rarely used ?
4. identify files that are most frequently changed ?         
5. identify files that most developers have accessed ?
6. identify files that have been committed together many number of times ?

The usage of these data could be to weed out messages like these, to refactor code and clean up the project of unused files.

Please suggest tools to achieve the same..

EDIT: We run SVN on Windows 2003.

Answer 1

StatSVN should be able to do the majority of that for you. You'll need to set up a scheduled task to run it over your repository, however, or you can integrate it into an Ant build if you happen to use that.

Some of the more complex tasks, such as number 6 in your list, will probably require a custom solution, however. Alternatively, as StatSVN is open source, you could make the required changes to that and submit them back to the project.