Command-line svn for Windows?

Asked 26/2, 2010 at 11:16 Answered 24/4 at 10:30

Solved windows svn command-line-interface

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Is there a command-line based version of svn for Windows? I know I can get TortoiseSVN, but that just doesn't work for me.

Cano answered 26/2, 2010 at 11:16 Comment(1)

What's your actual problem you want to solve with the native client? Why not use the bundled native client of TortoiseSVN? Describing your actual problem (ie WHY it dos not work) would be a better way to start a question instead of asking for available options ... – Venture 19/8, 2015 at 9:50

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TortoiseSVN contains a console svn client, but by default the corresponding option is not enabled during installation.

The svn.exe executable is not standalone and it depends on some other files¹ in the distribution but this should not be a problem in most cases.

Once installed you might need to add the folder containing svn.exe to the system PATH as described here so that it is available in your console. To check if it was already added by the installer open a new console and type echo %PATH%. Use set on its own to see all environmental variables.

TortoiseSVN install wizard

¹ for the svn* executables in TortoiseSVN 1.14.1, the following files are required on the PATH:

intl3_tsvn.dll
libaprutil_tsvn.dll
libapr_tsvn.dll
libsasl.dll
libsvn_tsvn.dll

Justiciable answered 28/3, 2013 at 15:50 Comment(8)

I like this answer the best and didn't know tortoise came with a command line client. One less program is one less thing to keep track of. – Photoconduction 6/8, 2013 at 14:3

Well, how can I use it? I hope to have a shell which shows some different color for different file status just like git shell does. – Keith 26/1, 2015 at 5:24

@Jaskey: Yes, there is a colorizer for SVN output. I use this one: github.com/jmlacroix/svn-color/blob/master/svn-color.sh - but it is not perfect, i had to modify it a bit since it does not support all the commands. Maybe there are other ones too, although I didn't see yet anything better. Of course, it is bash-only, so if you are on a windows box you'll need something like msys or cygwin. – Justiciable 26/1, 2015 at 9:53

Does not seem to add svn in PATH. Had to do it manually - C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin – Swashbuckling 6/4, 2015 at 6:39

It should probably be added that if you use TSVN, it's important not to mix up your work on a given working copy by using a command line with a different svn lib version. The corresponding Subversion library version is constantly announced with each new TSVN release (the installer packages are therefore named with two version informations). – Nitz 18/8, 2015 at 11:14

My installer automatically added it to the PATH. Definitely need to restart your cmd window though. – Bewick 9/6, 2016 at 21:31

This answer shows how to install TortoiseSVN and the svn command-line client using msiexec: https://mcmap.net/q/111272/-how-can-i-install-tortoisesvn-with-commands-using-command-line-msiexec-exe – Shackleford 27/10, 2016 at 9:40

Great answer! If the cmd line client has not been installed (as it was in my case) it can be easily added: Just restart the T SVN installer and choose "Modify". Then add the client in to the selection of parts that should be installed. – Beliabelial 21/3, 2018 at 8:26

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The subversion client itself is available on Windows. See here for certified binaries from CollabNet.

CollabNet Subversion Command-Line Client v1.6.9 (for Windows)

This installer only includes the command-line client and an auto-update component.

Even though I can't understand it's possible not to love Tortoise! :)

Note:
The above link is for newer products - you can find version 1.11.1 through 1.7.19 at Older Subversion Releases

Ics answered 26/2, 2010 at 11:19 Comment(10)

I sometimes get weird conflicts that I don't get when using svn on the command line. But that has been resolved now. – Cano 26/2, 2010 at 11:47

@Cano - TortoiseSVN does not have its own logic for handling conflicts - it relies completely on the SVN libraries for that. It does, however, come with a nice editor for handling conflicts. – Magistracy 26/2, 2010 at 12:37

Requires registration to download :/ – Unwise 7/12, 2011 at 10:9

In tortoise its not possible (or i dont know how) to get a condesed diff spaning multiple files. I like that feature. – Knowles 19/9, 2012 at 12:21

Be careful of the CollabNet registration form. If the submitted form has errors (which it will because of how it is designed), it will recheck the newsletters checkbox. – Trichinopoly 17/7, 2013 at 16:26

I need to schedule a task which would be triggered when my Windows is idle for a while. CollabNet seems to meet the requirement. – Omidyar 4/10, 2013 at 2:42

Tortoise slows down when you have large projects. It's great for smaller projects but when they get large there is a lot of calling the repo to update the windows icons which can get quite slow – Berte 23/2, 2018 at 0:45

You can download svn on windows without registration. Install Chocolatey chocolatey.org/docs/installation , and then type choco install svn. – Scheming 4/4, 2019 at 1:15

The subversion download on CollabNet is no where to be found and all the links are redirected to the home page. – Bagley 3/8, 2020 at 8:34

no need to install anything - just download the Apache Subversion command line tools from visualsvn.com/downloads (and edit the PATH variable) – Handfast 26/1, 2022 at 17:19

I've used sliksvn and it works great for me

Napery answered 26/2, 2010 at 11:18 Comment(3)

Pretty great, if you want a small (<6mb) client, which is even smaller then CollabNet's client (and you don't want to register to another company's site ;) ). – Notional 1/10, 2012 at 9:17

Nice tool. It also works as a standalone when you copy everything after installation to another folder. – Purgatorial 10/3, 2018 at 9:17

I'll upvote this. All I needed was a simple command line client for testing, I didn't want to go through installing something like Tortoise just for that. SlikSvn did the trick. – Justice 3/1, 2019 at 16:24

cygwin is another option. It has a port of svn.

Comeau answered 26/2, 2010 at 12:23 Comment(8)

installing cygwin just for svn? that's brutal (and unnecessary since there are quite a few 'native' clients) – Geesey 26/2, 2010 at 12:34

It is a bit of an overkill, I agree. – Comeau 26/2, 2010 at 13:57

anyway.. it's a another option, actually. – Disinclined 19/7, 2012 at 8:0

Do you need a special package for SVN? It didn't come with the default download of Cygwin that I recently installed on my computer. – Partheniaparthenocarpy 18/2, 2014 at 19:51

But if you already have cygwin, this is a perfectly reasonable option to consider. I think that's the point of this answer. – Wenoa 16/7, 2014 at 14:30

I think cygwin is perfect command line svn alternative, because the other linux tools, and scripting possibilities. You need to select subversion package in cygwin setup, to access svn commands. – Zilpah 25/10, 2015 at 7:8

@IdanK Only if you know svn is all you'll ever need. Otherwise, it can do so much more (at the very least, it can be the one place that contains all unix-derived tools). – Ulric 30/7, 2020 at 9:47

many a day of my developer life lost in older versions of cygwin. thank the internet better versions exist. – Mortise 20/7, 2021 at 21:50

You can get SVN command-line tools with TortoiseSVN 1.7 or later or get a 6.5mb standalone package from VisualSVN.

Starting with TortoiseSVN 1.7, its installer provides you with an option to install the command-line tools.

It also makes sense to check the Apache Subversion "Binary Packages" page. xD

Decennium answered 12/12, 2012 at 12:57 Comment(3)

Wow, that VisualSVN standalone package is excellent! That particular link you found, I have no idea how you found it. As far as I can tell, there is no way to navigate to that page from their site, you simply have to have inside knowledge that it exists! – Lucillelucina 28/12, 2018 at 4:35

@Lucillelucina you can find the link to this page at subversion.apache.org/packages.html#windows – Decennium 28/12, 2018 at 13:45

odd, I could have sworn that clicking the link on that page took me directly to visualsvn.com/server – Lucillelucina 3/1, 2019 at 7:22

VisualSVN for Windows has a command-line-only executable (as well Visual Studio plugins). See https://www.visualsvn.com/downloads/

It is completely portable, so no installation is necessary.

Scheming answered 31/1, 2020 at 0:34 Comment(0)

As Damian noted here Command line subversion client for Windows Vista 64bits TortoiseSVN has command line tools that are unchecked by default during installation.

Moldboard answered 14/2, 2012 at 23:31 Comment(0)

You can use Apache Subversion. It is owner of subversion . You can download from here . After install it, you have to restart pc to use svn from command line.

Aram answered 28/9, 2016 at 13:40 Comment(2)

easiest so far. And no, you don´t have to restart your pc. – Tantra 9/3, 2017 at 12:54

Doesn't appear to be maintained any longer. Last update was 2016. Subversion 1.8.17 seems to be the newest supported. The current LTS is 1.10.x and 1.13 is the current normal version. I wouldn't recommend this package for most at this point. – Greenburg 9/12, 2019 at 18:21

If you have Windows 10 you can use Bash on Ubuntu on Windows to install subversion.

Bundesrat answered 22/10, 2016 at 20:19 Comment(0)

Install MSYS2, it has svn in its repository (besides lots of other Unix goodies). MSYS2 installs without Windows Admin rights.

$ pacman -S svn

The tools can be used from cmd, too:

C:\>C:\msys64\usr\bin\svn.exe co http://somehost/somerepo/

Foremast answered 5/2, 2019 at 16:49 Comment(0)

If you have already installed TortoiseSVN without the command line tool and want to add it now, this answer is for you(Based on windows OS).

You don't have to uninstall it. Open your downloaded TortoiseSVN setup and it will open the following window. Click Modify and select the 'Command line client tools' and complete the installation. You will be able to access it from CMD.

Devlin answered 9/11, 2023 at 9:6 Comment(0)

For windows users: Please install this in your machine https://sliksvn.com/download/ It will resolve the problem automatically. No further configurations are required.

Represent answered 24/4 at 10:30 Comment(0)

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