Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 16:59:11 +0100:
> But I also think that the check for an existing repository should
> work within any subdirectory of the repository, not just within the
> top-level directory of the repository.
>
> Can you help by filing a DEFECT issue in our issue tracker
> (http://subversion.tigris.org/issue-tracker.html) requesting that the
> check be expanded to also work within subdirectories of a repository?
Don't. It's already this way. Hyrum+I wrote it some time back.
The reason? Because the URLs would be ambiguous: what should
% svn info file://$PWD/path/to/dir/trunk | grep -i 'repository root:'
print?