Shell script to emulate the output of "svn log --verbose --xml" for git based on http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11093911/git-log-pretty-with-list-of-files?answertab=active#tab-top

gitlogxml.sh

#!/bin/sh
revlist=$(git rev-list HEAD)
(
  echo '<?xml version="1.0"?>'
  echo '<log>'
  for rev in $revlist
  do
    echo "$(git log -1 --date=iso --pretty=format:"<logentry revision=\"%h\">%n<author>%an</author>%n<date>%ad</date>%n<msg>%s</msg>%n" $rev)"
    files=$(git log -1 --pretty="format:" --name-only $rev)
    echo '<paths>'
    for file in $files
    do
      echo "<path>$file</path>"
    done
    echo '</paths>'
    echo '</logentry>'
  done
  echo '</log>'
)