.svn/entries format

We develop web interfaces and would like a release string displayed on the web page. This information must be read real time.

We need to obtain information that would normally be provided by 'svn info'. The page, the apache user, does not have access to this program, but he can read the project’s .svn/entries file. We can guess at the information needed but was wondering if the format is published. Strictly an ro affair. (saw a previous nanny post)

The env/server is Linux/apache. There are a hundred ways to do this, but allowing perl to read this file seems easiest.

Admin will not allow apache user access to svn.

Also, is there something outside the svn application, a ‘working directory only’ version of svn info, (svninfo?), that we could use to obtain local working directory “info”. This would not require the security demanded by svn proper and would save us from having to read this file.
Received on 2011-05-14 14:44:12 CEST