How can I find the root folder of a given subversion working copy

Question

Quite often I\'m sitting in the middle of a subversion working copy, and I want to do a quick svn status to find out what changes I have made since the last che

Answer 1

On Windows:

svn info . |findstr /C:"Working Copy Root Path:"

On Linux:

svn info . |grep -F "Working Copy Root Path:"

It can be assigned to a variable using a little string manipulation. Windows version:

FOR /F "delims=" %%i IN ('svn info . ^|findstr /C:"Working Copy Root Path:"') DO SET SOME_TEMP_VAR=%%i
SET WORKING_COPY_ROOT=%SOME_TEMP_VAR:~24%