Re: how to get exit codes of svn commands

Please don't "borrow" threads? Thanks.

On Tue, 2005-22-03 at 17:33 +0800, velocity wrote:
> To do this, I would like to issue the following command
>
> svnlook uuid <path>
>
> >From this, I wanted to get the exit code of svnlook to be able to tell
> if the given path is a valid repository or not. Given a valid path and
> a bogus path (but exists in the directory), the exit codes are both
> '0' {zero}.
>
> What is the right way of doing this?

Seemed like a sound use of the return code and sane to me so I tried it:

[nesscg@heidrun subversion]$ svnlook uuid ~/subversion/test/
d3c769be-e8f2-0310-8b1f-f7cd6d7c08ff
[nesscg@heidrun subversion]$ echo $?
0
[nesscg@heidrun subversion]$ svnlook uuid /
svn: Can't open file '/format': No such file or directory
[nesscg@heidrun subversion]$ echo $?
1
[nesscg@heidrun subversion]$ svn --version
svn, version 1.1.2 (r12471)
   compiled Jan 10 2005, 07:01:51

So it seems you could try and upgrade, or perhaps talk to the windows
packager to see if this problem exists in his source base.

Cheers,
Chris

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