SVN provides fisheye-like changelog functionality -- the fancy changelog which shows all the commits to a particular directory, and all the files affected by each commit. This can be easily replicated at the SVN command line. Say like I want to see the last 10 changes in the testsuite: [rcampbell@dev01 testsuite]$ svn log -v --limit 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r57486 | dimitris(a)jboss.org | 2006-10-07 07:34:43 -0400 (Sat, 07 Oct 2006) | 1 line Changed paths: M /branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/src/main/org/jboss/test/compatibility/tes t/SerialVersionUIDUnitTestCase.java JBAS-3736, jaxen-1.1-beta9 has different serialVersionUIDs than beta4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r57461 | dimitris(a)jboss.org | 2006-10-06 02:56:19 -0400 (Fri, 06 Oct 2006) | 1 line Changed paths: M /branches/Branch_4_0/testsuite/imports/sections/jmx.xml .... Then for a particular commit, I can see exactly what changed by doing this: [rcampbell@dev01 testsuite]$ svn diff -r57485:57486 Index: src/main/org/jboss/test/compatibility/test/SerialVersionUIDUnitTestCase. java =================================================================== --- src/main/org/jboss/test/compatibility/test/SerialVersionUIDUnitTestCase. java (revision 57485) +++ src/main/org/jboss/test/compatibility/test/SerialVersionUIDUnitTestCase. java (revision 57486) @@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ "org.jboss.security.auth.login.TokenMgrError", // Ignore incompatible classes from the sun-javamail upgrade, JBAS-3488 "com.sun.mail.imap.protocol.IMAPAddress", - "javax.mail.MessagingException" + "javax.mail.MessagingException", + // JBAS-3736, jaxen-1.1-beta9 has different serialVersionUIDs than beta4 + "org.jaxen" }; ....