Z W <mpc8...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi All > >We're new to subversion. > >We like to make sure we get the latest svn revision number from the >svn repository on the remote server. >We are confused as to which command to use to find our latest revision >number. >Questions >1- >Which is correct - >svn info url or >svnlook youngest > Both are fine. But svnlook is a server side command. >2- >We thought svnlook is only available for the remote svn server but it >seems we can execute it. >We thought svnlook is a svn server command and not a svn client >command - are we correct ? > AFAIK, svnlook is just a server side command. From client side we may have to use log, diff, info, etc. >3- >How do we know if the host we're running on is an svn server and not a >svn client ? >How do we know from the installation perspective that we have a local >svn server ? > Svnadmin --version should let know that it has the svnadmin executable. To know if the host is a svn server, check if apache server is running and check httpd.conf for <location ...> directive and subversion settings in it. >4- >Is a working copy trunk after checking out from a remote server trunk >be considered a repository ? No, it can not be considered as a repo. >We ask because we're not sure when notes on the internet that says >repository, do they mean on the server or the local copy. > --prabhugs -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
