knowning how many commits it actually took you

If you use the same repository for mostly everything, you'll occasionally find it amusing that your brand new project is at r1800 or that that old project not touched since r60 now shares r2385 with everyone else.

Well, amusing != useful, so here's what I use when I'm curious about how many commits a certain project took me:

svn log --stop-on-copy | grep -e "--------" | wc -l