SVN: list all branches of all projects in a respository

Question

I have SVN repository setup and it has somewhat around 15 different projects. Each project has a similar structure i.e.

ProjectOne/
          tags/
          branches/
          trunk/

now, what I want to do is somehow list all the branches for all the projects in the repository. Is there a command or something I could use to do this? or going programmatically is the only option here ?

Answer 1

I believe this is the answer you're looking for:

svn ls URL-OF-REPO

and to find the REPO URL (If you don't know it already), you can use:

svn info .

inside the "current" SVN directory.

Alternatively, and more complicatedly, you can CLI-program the output to regex the URL too, as suggested in another posting:

svn info | grep URL | sed  's/URL: //g'

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See these other StackOverflow posts for more information. Hope this helps!

1. How to list all files in a remote SVN repository?
2. How to get svn remote repository URL?

Answer 2

There is svn list command. Since you already know the URLs of your repositories and projects, just run it like this svn info https://svn.example.com/MyProject1/branches.

You could automate it using PowerShell. Here are two rough examples.

• Use foreach loop to automate running svn list:

  $repos = "MyProject1", "MyProject2", "MyProject3", "MyProject4", "MyProject5"
  $rootURL = "https://svn.example.com/"
  
  foreach ($repo in $repos) {
  Write-Host -ForegroundColor Cyan "Repository: $rootURL/$repo `nBranches:"
  svn list $rootURL/$repo/branches
  }
  

• Use xml'ed output of svn list and parse the output with Select-XML. You could customize the command to get latest revision, author and date&time.

  $repos = "MyProject1", "MyProject2", "MyProject3", "MyProject4", "MyProject5"
  $rootURL = "https://svn.example.com/"
  
  foreach ($repo in $repos) {
  Write-Host -ForegroundColor Cyan "Repository: $rootURL/$repo `nBranches:"
  ([xml](svn list $rootURL/$repo/branches --xml)).SelectNodes("//lists/list/entry").Name
  }
  

Note that both script samples will display only the branches that exist in HEAD (i.e. latest) revision.