Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Edition

Name

svn list — List directory entries in the repository.

Synopsis

svn list [TARGET[@REV]...]

Description

List each TARGET file and the contents of each TARGET directory as they exist in the repository. If TARGET is a working copy path, the corresponding repository URL will be used.

The default TARGET is “.”, meaning the repository URL of the current working copy directory.

With --verbose, svn list shows the following fields for each item:

• Revision number of the last commit

• Author of the last commit

• If locked, the letter “O” (see the preceding section on “svn info” for details).

• Size (in bytes)

• Date and time of the last commit

With --xml, output is in XML format (with a header and an enclosing document element unless --incremental is also specified). All of the information is present; the --verbose option is not accepted.

Alternate names

ls.

Changes

Nothing.

Accesses repository

Yes.

Options

--depth ARG
--incremental
--recursive (-R)
--revision (-r) REV
--verbose (-v)
--xml

Examples

svn list is most useful if you want to see what files a repository has without downloading a working copy:

$ svn list http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/support
README.txt
INSTALL
examples/
...

You can pass the --verbose option for additional information, rather like the Unix command ls -l:

$ svn list --verbose file:///var/svn/repos
     16 sally         28361 Jan 16 23:18 README.txt
     27 sally             0 Jan 18 15:27 INSTALL
     24 harry               Jan 18 11:27 examples/

You can also get svn list output in XML format with the --xml option:

$ svn list --xml http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test ...