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+# SVN Log Count
+
+This is a small script for printing the amount of commits in a SVN repository in sum and by year.
+
+## Usage
+
+Download script in an SVN repo, make it executable with
+
+```
+chmod +x svn-log-count.sh
+```
+
+and execute it with
+
+```
+./svn-log-count.sh
+```
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