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Barry Kimelman
Barry Kimelman

Reputation: 13

Problems with SVN svnlook command in Linux

Here at the office I am logged into a Linux server.

From the command line I can execute the following command successfully

svn list -v https://svn.mycompany.com/rcs-sh/trunk/src
svn list -v https://svn.mycompany.com/rcs-sh/trunk/src | egrep $LOGNAME
svn cat https://svn.mycompany.com/rcs-sh/trunk/src/source_code_1.pl

However when I try to execute the command

svnlook info https://svn.mycompany.com/rcs-sh/trunk/src/source_code_1.pl

all I get is the error message

'https://svn.mycompany.com/rcs-sh/trunk/src/source_code_1.pl' is a URL when it should be a path

I have tried a number of variations on my command and they all result in the same error message. How can I get "svnlook info" to work from the command line in Linux ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 198

Answers (1)

zb226
zb226

Reputation: 10500

As Álvaro González noted, svnlook is an administrative tool. What it does is that it prints:

author, datestamp, log message size (in bytes), and log message, followed by a newline character.

When used without explicit revision as in your question, svnlook info defaults to showing information on the most recent version in the repository.

To get basically the same information from a working copy, you can use svn log:

svn log --limit 1 https://svn.mycompany.com/rcs-sh/trunk/src/source_code_1.pl

Example output:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
r20 | sally | 2003-01-17 22:56:19 -0600 (Fri, 17 Jan 2003) | 1 line

Made a change.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Upvotes: 3

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