Alternative to StatSVN?

Question

I am using StatSVN to generate a graph & table for SVN, but it is taking too long.

Is there any StatSVN plugin for Jenkins that is faster or an alternative to StatSVN that is faster?

Answer 1

Check out SvnStat, which is much faster than StatSVN in my experience - an order of magnitude or more.

In StatSVN's defense, it also outputs much more detailed repo information than SvnStat - e.g. commit logs and useful directory & file statistics among others; but this is not always worth the extra time to run it.

Personally, I find both StatSVN and SvnStat useful and frankly complimentary, but people's needs and situations can differ of course.

If you still want the extra detail that StatSVN provides, you could also consider two options (one, the other, or both):

1. Limit the verbose log that StatSVN analyzes - e.g. using svn log's --revision, --stop-on-copy, --limit, --depth, and/or other options.
2. Use StatSVN options to limit its analysis - e.g. -exclude or -no-developer.

Focusing on option # 2, for example, here is a StatSVN invocation I used when I bumped into the same problem with report generation taking too long...

java -jar "C:\Bin\statsvn-0.7.0\statsvn.jar" ^
    "C:\SCC\SomeProject\VerboseLog.xml" ^
    "C:\SCC\SomeProject" ^
    -output-dir "C:\SCC\SomeProject\StatSVN" ^
    -include "trunk/**" ^
    -exclude "branches/**:tags/**"

...and decided that tags and branches were not important (but contributing to lengthy analysis).