Check that an svn repository url does not exist

Question

I am writing a script which will add a new project in the repository, based on the name supplied by the user. Part of this involves checking that an url with the same name does

Answer 1

You can just use

svn ls https://developernetwork.repo.net/svn/Projects/Calculator/

It will tell you if the repository(directory) exist or not.

Update

for directories with many files use:

svn ls http://server/svn/foo --depth empty