Ever wanted to generate a change log from all your (dubious) Subversion repository comments?  For some reason want to do it in C# or just by calling an exe?  Now you can!  You can even tie it in to continuous integration!

About 6 months ago I spent an evening porting the Subversion Change Log generator to C# in order to integrate Change Log generation it into our Cruise Control.Net nightly builds at work.

It's not a direct port, more a C# reimplementation, but it produces the same output as svn2cl (which in itself was inspired by cvs2cl).  The gist is, that it calls svn.exe on the command line and retrieves the full history of comments for whichever svn path you request.

It's not the most elegant thing I've ever written (it pretty much just spawns the svn.exe and pipes the output through an XSL transform) and requires you having a command line svn.exe on your system (which if you use subversion on windows is pretty likely), but if you do you should be able to generate change logs from your repositories by calling the compiled executable like so:

SubversionReportProducer.exe --style=ChangeLog.xsl --outputLocation=out.txt --repositoryPath=svn://repo/trunk

If you don’t want to pass the subversion exe path and repository path through on each execution you can specify them by modifying the values in SubversionReportProducer.exe.config.  Those values will always attempt to load from configuration, and then attempt to load from a command line parameter (overwriting any app.config settings) allowing for maximum flexibility in batch scripts and automation.

I've bundled it with a couple of XSL transform files to produce some output, mostly taken from svn2cl and one subtle adaption that we use in our build process (ingeniously named changelog.xsl).

Your mileage by vary, but this could well be of use to someone.

Source code provided, feel free to contact me about any bugs but I’m pretty much just kicking this out into the wild..

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Requires .Net 2.0+