dump svn commits to a csv file with user, date, comment

svndata.rb

require 'rexml/document'
require 'date'
include REXML
start = open("|tail -n1 stats.csv").read
start = start.split(',')[1]
start_date = Date.parse(start).next

file = open("|svn -r {#{start_date}T00:00:00}:HEAD --xml -v log http://some.svn.repo/project")
doc = Document.new(file)
def clean(ele)
  if ele
    ele.text
  else 
    ''
  end
end
outfile = File.open("stats.csv","a")

doc.each_element('//logentry') do |entry|
  ele = entry.elements
  outfile.puts "#{clean(ele['author'])},#{clean(ele['date'])[0..9]},\"#{clean(ele['msg']).gsub("\n","")}\"\n"
end
outfile.close
file.close

This lets you see svn data should you need to run some statistics.