How to display list of repositories from subversion server

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I m looking for a way to search a whole subversion server   I already got a piece of the puzzle to search within a repository   Now I need to do this for every repository   Update   I have to access this list from some unix shell script  perl  bash  etc

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If you enable svn via apache and a SVNParentPath directive  you can add a SVNListParentPath On directive to your svn location to get a list of all repositories    Your apache conf should look similar to this    lt Location  svn gt    DAV svn   SVNParentPath           net svn repositories      optional auth stuff         SVNListParentPath On        lt --- Add this line to enable listing of all repos  lt  Location gt

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Doesn t your access to SVN work just like a Web service  When I access the top directory of my SVN server  I get a page that s essentially a Table Of Contents of the whole works  It s an Unordered List that I can simply scan through   EDIT  Here s how I would do it from the command line   wget http   user password svn-url  -O -   grep   lt li  gt

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If your server is Apache  you should   be able to configure it to see the   repository list with viewvc -   this is the most basic one  other more   complex interfaces exist but this is   not your purpose here       In some versions  ViewVC is an option of the standard installation   now  for instance from Collabnet    Edit  Nevermind my previous idea just above  Peter has a much simpler way of sending the repository list   From there  you will have to    get the HTML page   extract the list  and  process it for the individual repository search    Unfortunately in this case I cannot think of something more straightforward   There are examples on SO on how to extract text from HTML pages in Python  this would be a good option since Python also has bindings for SVN  to perform the repository search - you can still call svn directly from Python if you prefer   If Python is not your cup of tea  you will have to process that differently with GNU tools  wget  then parsing tools or existing packages - I can t be of much help there  Carl gave you some more details in this post

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I was also looking to list repositories in SVN  I did something like this on shell prompt      svn list https   www repo rr com svn main team gaurav  Test  Test2  Test3  Test4  Test5  Test6

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If you know your way around Java  you can use SvnKit to do browse  search and God knows what with your Subversion server   After that  you can package your program and invoke it either via an Ant task or a shell script   It s quite a  brute force  solution  but once you master SvnKit  you can really do lots of cool things

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At my company they didn t configure the server to provide a list of repositories  so svn list worked for a specific repository but not at a higher level to list all repositories   However they installed FishEye which gives you a GUI listing the repositories https   www atlassian com software fisheye  It s a paid option  so it s not for everyone  but the functionality is nice

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Sometimes you may wish to check on the timestamp for when the repo was updated  for getting this handy info you can use the svn -v  verbose  option as in  svn list -v svn   123 123 123 123 svn repo path

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