How get local root path in svn?

Question

Mercuril, Git and Bazaar has a way to get path root:

git rev-parse --show-toplevel
hg root 
bzr root

How print the local root path in subversion?

Update

Example:

> svn checkout https://example.com/svn/foo ~/foo --username fabiocerqueira
> cd ~/foo
> svn root (don't works)
  /home/user/project/foo/

Levee

Answer 1

Would the Working Copy Root Path from the svn info command provide what you need?

D:> svn info
Path: .
Working Copy Root Path: D:\workdir\local-tc-common-all
URL: svn://localhost/trunk/tc-common-all/src/main/bin
Repository Root: svn://localhost
Repository UUID: 4f1d1789-e46b-c140-9c77-f79c92213374
Revision: 61
Node Kind: directory
Schedule: normal
Last Changed Author: dweintraub
Last Changed Rev: 3
Last Changed Date: 2012-07-19 12:09:24 -0400 (Thu, 19 Jul 2012)

This gives you the root of the current checkout which seems to be what you're looking for. You can use the --xml switch which sometimes makes it easier to get programmatically since most programming languages are pretty good at parsing XML.

If you're looking for the root of the repository itself separate from the URL scheme, you could get that by taking the Repository Root out of the URL field.

Ichthyolite

svn info don't returns "Working Copy Root Path". What is the version of the subversion? My version is 1.6.18 (r1303927) – Levee

That example was cut from version 1.7 on Windows. However, I tried it with 1.6.18, and get the Repository Root path on the Mac. – Ichthyolite

Answer 2

Did some search and found nothing... Finally I saw the old friend svn info and see if works for you...

$ svn info | grep 'Root'
Repository Root: http://your.subversion.com/path/to/root

Hope this helps!!!

Nita

"svn info" returns remote root path. I wanna get the path where I made the checkout. Example: > svn checkout example.com/svn/foo ~/foo > cd ~/foo > svn root (don't works) /home/user/project/foo/ – Levee

Answer 3

If you install the SlikSvn client, you can do a "svn info" at any level of the checkout and it will return the local root path.

Christa

Answer 4

I use svn info | awk -F: '/Root Path: (.*)/ { print $2 }' | xargs on Linux and Windows through Cygwin.

Pelorus