There’s a great java tool for analyzing your Subversion database, it’s called statsvn and is available at www.statsvn.org

This tool runs in java and produces HTML pages with images showing  all kinds of development information including:

• Developers
• Commit Logs
• Lines of Code (total and per developer)
• File Statistics
• Directory Sizes

First you generate a full subversion log using a command like:

svn log –xml -v > svnxml.log

Next you run the tool over the log via:

java -jar \statsvn\statsvn-0.7.0\statsvn.jar svnxml.log .

Then look at the index.html file generated and get real insight into how your development is unfolding.

I’m not aware of similar tools for git, although github has some nice online reporting.

How do you monitor a project’s progress?

Many developers are still using subversion, but the new cool configuration management tool is git. git keeps the entire repository stored on your system.

If you’re an iPhone developer then you know that Xcode integrates subversion support into its IDE. Eclipse also integrates subversion with “subclipse”. There’s no good way to integrate git in Xcode, I don’t know about Eclipse. Do you?