AW: .svn/entries format

Hi, Cate,

> Von: Cate Bekensail [mailto:catebekensail_at_yahoo.com]

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> 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 format is published in the form that it is documented in the source dowload.

But it is not intented to be read directly by 3rd party applications, its format can change in incompatible ways between SVN releases.

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

Isn't there a perl-svn module somewhere on cpan?
 
> Admin will not allow apache user access to svn.

Not even a local installation (chroot or similar)?

> 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.

You could also write a small C program linking statically against the subversion libraries...

Best regards

Markus Schaber

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Received on 2011-05-16 07:53:28 CEST