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Is there a way to detect that current directory is the root of SVN repository by reading files into .svn directory?

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Is there a way to detect that current directory is the root of SVN repository by reading files into .svn directory ? I think "svn info" could be used for that. Problem is that some machines may not have access to "svn" command line (if using tortoise and svn is not in command PATH for example).

In case "svn info" (or any other command line) is the only way, what would be the proper way to do it ?

posted May 27, 2015 by Kiran

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Beginning with Subversion 1.8, svn info prints repository-relative URLs. See Subversion 1.8 Release Notes entry at http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html#svn-info.

For example, if you run svn info at the root of the repository, you'll see

...
Relative URL: ^/
Repository Root: https://svn.example.com/svn/TestRepo
...

If you run svn info in a subtree, you'll see

...
Relative URL: ^/TestProject/trunk
Repository Root: https://svn.example.com/svn/TestRepo
...
answer May 27, 2015 by Amit Parthsarthi
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