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Manny
Asked: 2011-09-12 14:07:52 +0800 CST

How to get the url of the current svn repo?

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I have 2 svn checkouts that someone setup for me. Now I need to check these same files on another computer, but since I didn't check them out initially I don't know the urls to use when running the svn checkout command:

svn co WHAT_GOES_HERE?

Since these 2 checkouts already exist on one of my servers, is there a way to get the url of the repo from which they were initially checked out from?

linux svn command-line-interface

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can get the URL of the directory you are in, as well as the Repository Root and other info by running the following command in any of the checked out directories:

    svn info

    If you want a command that returns only the URL of the repository, perhaps for use in a script, then you can pass the following parameter:

    svn info --show-item repos-root-url

    It is worth noting that --show-item is available in Subversion 1.9+. In older versions you can use the following snippet the achieve similar result:

    svn info | grep 'Repository Root' | awk '{print $NF}'
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  2. For SVN 1.7 I had to use 

    svn info | grep '^URL' | awk '{print $NF}'

    I hope this helps anyone else that comes here with a newer SVN

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  3. No need to grep, just use AWK for the search and delimiting the string
    svn info | awk '/^URL/{print $2}'

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