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 checkin. However svn status only works on the current folder and it's children. (Similarly for svn up too)

I'd like a quick way to change to the root folder of the subversion working copy so I can run a svn status and see all files that have changed, maybe a checkin or a update, and then get back to work where I was before.

Answer 1

Here's my first go at an answer: I wrote a little bash script called svnbase:

#!/bin/bash -u  # this command outputs the top-most parent of the current folder that is still  # under svn revision control to standard out  # if the current folder is not under svn revision control, nothing is output # and a non-zero exit value is given  parent="" grandparent="."  while [ -d "$grandparent/.svn" ]; do     parent=$grandparent     grandparent="$parent/.." done  if [ ! -z "$parent" ]; then     echo $parent else     exit 1 fi 

So now I can do this:

[~/work/scripts/XXX/code/speech-detection/framework]$ cd $(svnbase) [~/work/scripts/XXX]$ svn status ?      code/speech-detection/framework/output.old [~/work/scripts/XXX]$ cd - /home/XXXX/work/scripts/XXX/code/speech-detection/framework [~/work/scripts/XXX/code/speech-detection/framework]$