Log SVN Access to a Central Location

Today I was searching the web for ways to log access to our Subversion repositories. It turns out, that there is no built-in straightforward way to do that. Most of the posts on the Web suggest using the Apache’s access log. This could work only if you have set-up WebDAV on your Apache server. We prefer to use SSH tunnels to access our repositories for many reasons, overhead being one of them.

So I took another run and ended up reading Kintoandar’s blog. He explains a rather simple way of making SVN log every access to the repository. It is based on svnserve, which is called every time a connection to the repository is made. The command itself supports logging, but the optional parameter for using log files is rarely used. Continue reading “SVN + SSH Access Log to GrayLog”