[Bioc-devel] How to check package changes?

[Sean Davis]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 23:27, Seth Falcon wrote:
> Marcus Davy <mdavy at hortresearch.co.nz> writes:
> > Thanks to Colin Smith and Sean Davis for their comments.
> >
> > The BioC monthly news report;
> >
> > March-http://www.bioconductor.org/News/2007-04-04
> >
> > is useful but summarizes changes for all packages by month. For others
> > not particular familiar with svn, a history log for any particular
> > package is available with;
> >
> > svn co
> > https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/[Package]
> > /tmp/[Package] # continued line
> >
> > svn log /tmp/[Package]
>
> Actually, you don't need a working copy to get a log.  So you can ask
> for the log of any svn URL:
>
> svn log -v
> https://hedgehog.fhcrc.org/bioconductor/trunk/madman/Rpacks/[Package]

And just to mention a few svn clients with GUIs:

Linux:  kdesvn (and many others)
Windows:  tortoisesvn
Macos:  svnx

All of these allow you to get log output, but each also has a way to look at 
diffs in code, co or export, copy, etc.  Rather than having to deal with svn 
at the command line, it is all available in a nice GUI.  

Sean