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Re: How do I determine a repository version

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 18:03:36 -0600

On Nov 2, 2008, at 22:01, Ben Engber wrote:

> On Oct 22, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Andy Levy wrote:
>
>>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Ben Engber wrote:
>>>
>>>> This may be a dumb question, but how do I determine the version
>>>> of a
>>>> repository which is hosted externally? I've searched the FAQ,
>>>> the docs, and
>>>> google but have found no answer -- just other people with the
>>>> same question.
>>>>

>> You're asking for 2 things then, really:
>>
>> 1) Subversion version running on the server (if your repository is
>> served via Apache, you can browse to the repository and the version #
>> will be displayed in the footer)
>>
>> 2) Repository format (I'm not sure this is discoverable from a
>> client)

> Maybe I'm not asking the right question. My issue is that I work
> with many different subversion repositories. They are all hosted
> by different organizations and are presumably different versions.
> For those repositories that are subversion 1.5, I would very much
> like to use the new merge tracking features. For those that are
> <1.5, I will obviously not be able to. This difference in
> supported features affects how I work with each repository, so I
> would like some way to know the supported feature set of each
> repository I connect to.
>
> Is there any command that I can run to determine this?
>
>
> The "svn info" command gives a bunch of information including
> things such as GUID, but nothing obvious that might give me a clue
> as to the supported feature set (version #, etc.). If I access
> subversion through a web browser I get the following text response:
>
> ( success ( 1 2 ( ANONYMOUS ) ( edit-pipeline svndiff1 absent-
> entries ) ) )
>
> I don't know how to interpret that.
>
>
> It seems that what I'm asking should be possible, but maybe it isn't?

So what you want to know is 1) has the server in question been
updated to Subversion 1.5.x? and if so, 2) has the repository in
question been updated to be able to handle mergeinfo properties? If
the repositories are served with Apache, you can answer the first
question by visiting the repository URL in a web browser. If the
repositories are served with svnserve, as seems to be the case for
you, then you cannot answer this question without looking on the
server itself. The second question also can't be answered, as far as
I know, without looking on the server itself. You'll need to contact
the administrators of the repositories in question.

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