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Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition
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Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition

by C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick
September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
13h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

svn info — Display information about a local or remote item.

Synopsis

svn info [TARGET[@REV]...]

Description

Print information about the working copy paths or URLs specified. The information shown for both may include:

  • Path

  • Name

  • URL

  • Repository root

  • Repository UUID

  • Revision

  • Node kind

  • Last changed author

  • Last changed revision

  • Last changed date

  • Lock token

  • Lock owner

  • Lock created (date)

  • Lock expires (date)

Additional kinds of information available only for working copy paths are:

  • Schedule

  • Copied from URL

  • Copied from rev

  • Text last updated

  • Properties last updated

  • Checksum

  • Conflict previous base file

  • Conflict previous working file

  • Conflict current base file

  • Conflict properties file

Alternate names

None.

Changes

Nothing.

Accesses repository

Only if operating on URLs.

Options

--changelist ARG
--depth ARG
--incremental
--recursive (-R)
--revision (-r) REV
--targets FILENAME
--xml

Examples

svn info will show you all the useful information that it has for items in your working copy. It will show information for files:

$ svn info foo.c Path: foo.c Name: foo.c URL: http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/foo.c Repository Root: http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test Repository UUID: 5e7d134a-54fb-0310-bd04-b611643e5c25 Revision: 4417 Node Kind: file Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: sally Last Changed Rev: 20 Last Changed Date: 2003-01-13 16:43:13 -0600 (Mon, 13 Jan 2003) Text Last Updated: 2003-01-16 21:18:16 -0600 (Thu, 16 Jan 2003) Properties Last Updated: 2003-01-13 21:50:19 -0600 (Mon, 13 Jan 2003) Checksum: d6aeb60b0662ccceb6bce4bac344cb66 ...
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