How do I see the last 10 commits in reverse-chronological order with SVN?

To clarify the previous answers - note that svn log by default only shows the commits up to the revision of your working copy (latest svn update, run svn info to see). So yes, if it's OK for you to download all commits first, this combination will work:

svn update

svn log -l 10

However, I'm mostly interested in showing the ALL latest commits without first updating my working copy, so I mostly compare my log to HEAD falling:

svn log -l 10 -r HEAD:1

It makes a huge difference to me.

To see them in chronological order:

svn log -r1:HEAD

A shortcut -l exists for --limit

# show last 10 logs
svn log -l 10

svn log --limit 10

or

svn log -l 10

Further googling uncovered the answer. svn log lists in reverse-chronological order by default.