On Feb 3, 2013, at 21:45, Ramachandran Raghavendran wrote: > My very first commit consisted of 10 folders and 8 files. > After this very commit if I run svn log -v --xml with the URL for a > single file, the output lists data for all the rest of items under that > commit. > I was expecting the data from just the file for which I'm running the > log command. > My understanding of what is happening is this.... even if we run svn > log for a single file, if the (subversion) selected revision involves > other files and folders, the log command gives the xml data of all > involved items. So svn log seems to run at revision-file level rather > than at file-revision level. Assuming that my understanding is correct , > I'd have wished the log to give the output of just what I asked for :-))
The purpose of the "-v" argument to "svn log" is to tell you the paths of all the files affected by the commit. If you don't want that information, don't supply the "-v" flag.
