ant svntask retrieving revision message

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I'm using ant with svntask to update a repository before I build an application. At the end of the build, an email goes out with the results of the build. It would be very helpful to include the svn revision number and message in that email, so if the build breaks, we know which revision to review.

I am currently displaying only the revision number:

<status path="${main.site}" revisionProperty="sqlUpdateStatus.revision"/>

But I don't know how (or if there is a way) to get that revision's message (the message put in by the commiter). Do you guys know how to do that?

any way to get the revision message using ant ? i tried using ant svntask, but not able to find any way to get revision message. — Jugi, Nov 12 '15 at 13:15

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 31 '09 at 22:40

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It's not exactly an answer to your question, but have you considered using a Continuous Integration (CI) tool, such as Hudson?

Hudson comes out of the box with SVN and ANT support and the ability to email errors when the build fails.

answered Aug 31 '09 at 22:40

Mads Hansen

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rjohnston · Answer 2 · 2009-08-31T23:01:26.210

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I don't think there's a built in way to get the commit message, but you can pull it manually out of svn with a command like this:

svnlook log -r X /path/to/repo

This will return the log message for the revision X for the repository at /path/to/repo. You could wrap this up in ant's exec task to preform it from ant...

+1 for Hudson - very simple to deploy and set up

edited Aug 31 '09 at 23:01

answered Aug 31 '09 at 22:55

rjohnston

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '12 at 15:50

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Using executable:

<exec executable="svn" dir="." outputproperty="ant.comment">
     <arg line="propget --revprop svn:log -r${ant.revision}"/>
</exec>
<echo>The comment is: ${ant.comment}</echo>

answered May 14 '12 at 15:50

Steven de Salas

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 04 '12 at 08:19

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use the following command

svn propget --revprop svn:log -r HEAD --username USERNAME svn://THE_URL

answered Sep 04 '12 at 08:19

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That works for the shell. That doesn't seem to be what the question asked, though. – pjmorse Sep 23 '12 at 10:39

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 02 '09 at 13:03

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<svn username="username" password="password">
 <log url="svn://url"/>
</svn>

answered Sep 02 '09 at 13:03

FoxyBOA

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and how do I capture the output? I searched for more info on the log command, but the only thing I could find was here: http://code.google.com/p/svntask/source/diff?spec=svn24&r=24&format=side&path=/trunk/src/com/googlecode/svntask/command/Log.java# . I tried to set the logPropety attribute and then use the variable, but it doesn't work. And if I just leave it as you put it there, it says [svn] started ... [svn] finished. Thanks! – user166267 Sep 06 '09 at 00:42
sorry FoxyBOA, still here? :) I will probably go with rjohnston's suggestion if I don't find this out. And while Hudson appears to be a good suggestion, I don't have time to implement it just now. Maybe for the future. – user166267 Sep 09 '09 at 18:27
use the destFile="changelog.txt" option – Vasile Surdu Mar 27 '15 at 14:52

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 23 '10 at 17:24

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I don't know of a good way to get this with svnant, but a nice way to get it from the command line is:

svn propget --revprop svn:log -r1234

answered Nov 23 '10 at 17:24

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