diff --git a/reference/svn/functions/svn-log.xml b/reference/svn/functions/svn-log.xml
index c38505680a..52fc8eb6a2 100644
--- a/reference/svn/functions/svn-log.xml
+++ b/reference/svn/functions/svn-log.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.3 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.4 $ -->
 <refentry xml:id="function.svn-log" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <refnamediv>
   <refname>svn_log</refname>
@@ -235,47 +235,6 @@ Array
     </screen>
    </example>
   </para>
-  <para>
-   <example>
-    <title>Simulating <userinput>--limit</userinput> with <userinput>svn</userinput> and <function>svn_log</function></title>
-    <para>
-     This sample function simulates the <userinput>--limit</userinput> switch
-     by using the SVN executable to return a list of revisions, which
-     are then losslessly accessed using <function>svn_log</function>.
-    </para>
-    <note>
-     <para>
-      This function will perform a total of <parameter>limit</parameter> + 1
-      requests: the first request to pull the required revisions, and
-      each one after to retrieve the log item for that request.
-     </para>
-    </note>
-    <programlisting role="php">
-<![CDATA[
-<?php
-/**
- * Retrieves the last $limit log entries.
- * @param $repos_url Repository URL of item to get logs for
- * @param $limit Integer limit of items
- */
-function svn_log_limit($repos_url, $limit) {
-    $limit = (int) $limit;
-    if ($limit <= 0) return array();
-    // -q flag used to prevent server from sending log messages
-    $output = shell_exec("svn log -q --limit $limit $repos_url");
-    preg_match_all('/^r(\d+) /m', $output, $matches);
-    $ret = array();
-    foreach ($matches[1] as $rev) {
-        $log = svn_log($repos_url, (int) $rev);
-        $ret[] = $log[0]; // log is only one item long
-    }
-    return $ret;
-}
-?>
-]]>
-    </programlisting>
-   </example>
-  </para>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1 role="seealso">