Get all branch names in SVN

Question

How do I get the list of all SVN branches which are more than x years old?

I use SVN on CentOS, and I have sventon for viewing all the repository.

Answer 1

Combining @Lazy's answer and this answer using command substitution you could put it all in one command:

svn ls `svn info | grep '^URL' | awk '{sub(/trunk.*$/, "branches", $NF); print}'` -v

(Depends on your svn repo layout, so change if necessary.)

Answer 2

I figured out another way to do this, but you need sventon or another tool which lists all contents of your SVN repository.

Step 1: From your sventon view, copy the list of branches. This would include revision, author and date.

Step 2: Open Excel and do a paste special.

Step 3: Filter the date column to show dates less than x years old.

Result: All branches which are less than x years old. This list was useful to me to do an svn delete --targets listofoldbranchnames.txt.

Answer 3

• svn help ls

If you'll use the URL of the repository branches root with verbose output, you'll get something like this:

svn ls http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/branches/ --verbose
     28 lazybadg              фев 22  2011 ./
     28 lazybadg              фев 22  2011 Leichtbau-Deutsch/
     26 lazybadg              фев 22  2011 branche-francaise/
     25 lazybadg              сен 14  2010 i18n/

The 3+4+5 field in gawk will give you the branch's last-changed date.

• svn help log

Slightly more complex and noisy output with a single advantage: a readable date,

svn log http://mayorat.ursinecorner.ru:8088/svn/Hello/branches/ -v -q
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r28 | lazybadger | 2011-02-22 09:24:04 +0600 (Вт, 22 фев 2011)
Changed paths:
   M /branches/Leichtbau-Deutsch/Hello.de.txt
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r27 | lazybadger | 2011-02-22 09:21:41 +0600 (Вт, 22 фев 2011)
Changed paths:
   A /branches/Leichtbau-Deutsch (from /trunk:26)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
r26 | lazybadger | 2011-02-22 06:49:41 +0600 (Вт, 22 фев 2011)
Changed paths:
   A /branches/branche-francaise (from /trunk:25)
   M /branches/branche-francaise/Hello.fr.txt
------------------------------------------------------------------------

| grep -v "|" for excluding separation line, with <any tool of choice>, get affected branch from "Changed paths" filenames, date from the first string of the revision log.

Answer 4

You can always use "--xml" instead of "--verbose" resp. "-v". Yields machine readable output as opposed to "human readable output" as yielded by "--verbose". No need to remove separation lines etc. Extract what you need using xmlstarlet or using a proper XQuery script (Saxon, …).