How to programmatically get SVN revision description and author in c#?

Question

How do I programmatically get the revision description and author from the SVN server in c#?

Answer 1

I've done something similar to this a while back, we needed notification of certain repository commits.

I ended up using SubversionNotify to do this. You could take a look at the code there and see what you can use.

I do believe SubversionNotify is grabbing output from svnlook. Svnlook has quite a few arguments that can get what you're looking for.

If you know the revision number and repository:

svnlook info -r [rev#] /path/to/repo

Will net you the User, Timestamp, Log message length, and the log message itself:

bob
2009-03-25 11:10:49 -0600 (Wed, 25 Mar 2009)
19
Did stuff with things.