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

• 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.