exit status of svn commands

The exit status of svn commands doesn't seem to be specified,
at least not by "svn help <subcommand>".

In particular, "svn update <file>" and "svn status <file>" seem
to always return with a 0 exit status on non-existing files.
This may be normal for "svn update" in a working copy, because
the command makes sense in case the file was added. Ditto for
"svn status": the user may want to test whether the file is in
base but has been removed with "rm", for instance. But I wonder
whether the 0 exit status is correct when not in a working copy.

There has already been a too short discussion about this:

  http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-03/0918.shtml

and there doesn't seem to be an entry in the issue tracker.

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