How to find my Subversion server version number

Question

I want to know if my server is running Subversion 1 5   How can I find that out   Also would be nice to know my SVN client version number  svn help hasn t been helpful   Note  I don t want my project s revision number  etc  This question is about the Subversion software itself

User · Answer

To find the version of the subversion REPOSITORY you can:

Look to the repository on the web and on the bottom of the page it will say something like:
"Powered by Subversion version 1.5.2 (r32768)."
From the command line: <insert curl, grep oneliner here>

If not displayed, view source of the page

<svn version="1.6.13 (r1002816)" href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">

Now for the subversion CLIENT:

svn --version

will suffice

User · Answer

You can connect to your Subversion server using HTTP and find the version number in the HTTP header

User · Answer

Just use a web browser to go to the SVN address  Check the source code  Ctrl   U   Then you will find something like in the HTML code    lt svn version  1 6

User · Answer

Here s the simplest way to get the SVN server version  HTTP works even if your SVN repository requires HTTPS      curl -X OPTIONS http   my-svn-domain   lt  DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC  -  IETF  DTD HTML 2 0  EN    lt html  lt head     lt  head   lt body      lt address Apache 2 2 11  Debian  DAV 2 SVN 1 5 6 PHP 5 2 9-4     lt  address   lt  body  lt  html

User · Answer

There really isn t an easy way to find out what version of Subversion your server is running -- except to get onto the server and see for yourself   However  this may not be as big a problem as you may think  Subversion clients is were much of the grunt work is handled  and most versions of the Subversion clients can work with almost any version of the server   The last release where the server version really made a difference to the client was the change from release 1 4 to release 1 5 when merge tracking was added  Merge tracking had been greatly improved in version 1 6  but that doesn t really affect the interactions between the client and server   Let s take the latest changes in Subversion 1 8    svn move is now a first class operation  Subversion finally understands the svn move is not a svn copy and svn delete  However  this is something that the client handles and doesn t really affect the server version  svn merge --reintegrate deprecated  Again  as long as the server is at version 1 5 or greater this isn t an issue  Property Inheritance  This is another 1 8 release update  but this will work with any Subversion server -- although Subversion servers running 1 8 will deliver better performance on inheritable properties  Two new inheritable properties - svn global-ignores and svn auto-props  Alas  What we really wanted  A way to setup these two properties without depending upon the Subversion configuration file itself  However  this is a client-only issue  so it again doesn t matter what version of the server you re using  gnu-agent memory caching  Another client-only feature  fsfs performance enhancements and authz in-repository authentication  Nice features  but these work no matter what version of the client you re using    Of all the features  only one depends upon the version of the server being 1 5 or greater  and 1 4 has been obsolete for quite a while  The newer features of 1 8 will improve performance of your working copy  but the server being at revision 1 8 isn t necessary  You re much more affected by your client version than your server version   I know this isn t the answer you wanted  no official way to see the server version   but fortunately the server version doesn t really affect you that much

User · Answer

If you use VisualSVN Server  you can find out the version number by several different means   Use VisualSVN Server Manager  Follow these steps to find out the version via the management console    Start the VisualSVN Server Manager console  See the Version at the bottom-right corner of the dashboard      If you click Version you will also see the versions of the components     Check the README txt file  Follow these steps to find out the version from the readme txt file    Start notepad exe  Open the  VISUALSVN SERVER README txt file  The first line shows the version number

User · Answer

Try this   ssh your user your server svnserve --version  svnserve  version 1 3 1  r19032     compiled May  8 2006  07 38 44   I hope it helps

User · Answer

For a svn ssh configuration  use ssh to run svnserve --version on the host machine        ssh user host svnserve --version   It is necessary to run the svnserve command on the machine that is actually serving as the server

User · Answer

Browse the repository with Firefox and inspect the element with Firebug  Under the NET tab  you can check the Header of the page  It will have something like   Server  Apache 2 2 14  Win32  DAV 2 SVN 1 X X

User · Answer

One more option  If you have Firefox  I am using 14 0 1  and a SVN web interface    Open Tools- Web Developer- Web Console on a repo page Refresh page Click on the GET line Look in the Response Headers section at the Server  line   There should be an  SVN 1 7 4  string or similar there   Again  this will probably only work if you have  ServerTokens Full  as mentioned above

User · Answer

For Subversion 1 7 and above  the server doesn t provide a footer that indicates the server version   But you can run the following command to gain the version from the response headers    curl -s -D - http   svn server net svn repository HTTP 1 1 401 Authorization Required Date  Wed  09 Jan 2013 03 01 43 GMT Server  Apache 2 2 9  Unix  DAV 2 SVN 1 7 4   Note that this also works on Subversion servers where you don t have authorization to access

User · Answer

If the Subversion server version is not printed in the HTML listing  it is available in the HTTP RESPONSE header returned by the server  You can get it using this shell command  wget -S --no-check-certificate     --spider  http   svn server net svn repository  2 gt  amp 1       sed -n   SVN s     SVN 0-9            1 p     If the SVN server requires you provide a user name and password  then add the wget parameters --user and --password to the command like this  wget -S --no-check-certificate     --user  username  --password  password      --spider  http   svn server net svn repository  2 gt  amp 1       sed -n   SVN s     SVN 0-9            1 p

User · Answer

Let s merge these responses   For REPOSITORY   SERVER  the original question    If able to access the Subversion server    From an earlier answer by Manuel  run the following on the SVN server   svnadmin --version    If HTTP HTTPS access    See the  powered by Subversion  line when accessing the server via a browser  Access the repository via browser and then look for the version string embedded in the HTML source  From earlier answers by elviejo and jaredjacobs  Similarly  from     use your browser s developer tools  usually Ctrl   Shift   I  to read the full response  This is also the easiest  non-automated  way to deal with certificates and authorization - your browser does it for you  Check the response tags  these are not shown in the HTML source   from an earlier answer by Christopher  wget -S --spider  http   svn server net svn repository  2 gt  amp 1   sed -n   SVN s     SVN 0-9            1 p     If svn    or ssh svn access   From an earlier answer by Milen  svnserve --version    run on svn server   From an earlier answer by Glenn  ssh user host svnserve --version    If GoogleCode SVN servers      Check out the current version in a FAQ       http   code google com p support wiki SubversionFAQ What version of Subversion do you use    If another custom SVN servers      TBD   Please edit to finish this answer  For CLIENT  not the original question    svn --version

User · Answer

To find the version of the subversion REPOSITORY you can:

Look to the repository on the web and on the bottom of the page it will say something like:
"Powered by Subversion version 1.5.2 (r32768)."
From the command line: <insert curl, grep oneliner here>

If not displayed, view source of the page

<svn version="1.6.13 (r1002816)" href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">

Now for the subversion CLIENT:

svn --version

will suffice

User · Answer

For an HTTP-based server there is a Python script to find the server version at  http   svn apache org repos asf subversion trunk tools client-side server-version py  You can get the client version with   svn --version

User · Answer

On the server   svnserve --version  in case of svnserve-based configuration  svn    and svn xxx        For completeness

[svn] How to find my Subversion server version number?

Examples related to svn