Re: svn info and svnlook - quick questions

Guten Tag Z W,
am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2013 um 00:56 schrieben Sie:

> 2-
> We thought svnlook is only available for the remote svn server but it
> seems we can execute it.
> We thought svnlook is a svn server command and not a svn client
> command - are we correct ?

Look at the help or manpage for svnlook and compare it to svn help co,
for example, svnlook needs a path to a repo, svn co URLs. svnlook may
just be available in whatever you installed to use Subversion, as some
distribution provide client and server binaries in one package.

> 3-
> How do we know if the host we're running on is an svn server and not a
> svn client ?
> How do we know from the installation perspective that we have a local
> svn server ?

I think you can't be sure, you can only guess after checking all
different methods to run an svn server: httpd, svnserve and whatever
is available. What's the reason behind this question?

> 4-
> Is a working copy trunk after checking out from a remote server trunk
> be considered a repository ?

No, it's a working copy as everything client side which was fetched
from a server and is still under version control is a working copy. In
contrary to an export for example, which is fetched from a
server/repo, but is not under version control anymore.

> We ask because we're not sure when notes on the internet that says
> repository, do they mean on the server or the local copy.

Repository means server, but as always sometimes people use terms
wrongly or one just misunderstands the context, as repositories of
course can be local to the server serving the repos. Most of the time
it's clear in the context, else just ask the list. :-)

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Thorsten Schöning

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