<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>svn list (ls)</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url('images/draft.png'); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: top left; /* The following properties make the watermark "fixed" on the page. */ /* I think that's just a bit too distracting for the reader... */ /* background-attachment: fixed; */ /* background-position: center center; */ }</style> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Version Control with Subversion [DRAFT]" /> <link rel="up" href="svn.ref.svn.html" title="svn Reference—Subversion Command-Line Client" /> <link rel="prev" href="svn.ref.svn.c.info.html" title="svn info" /> <link rel="next" href="svn.ref.svn.c.lock.html" title="svn lock" /> </head> <body> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-version-notice"> <p>This text is a work in progress—highly subject to change—and may not accurately describe any released version of the Apache™ Subversion® software. 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If <em class="replaceable"><code>TARGET</code></em> is a working copy path, the corresponding repository URL will be used.</p> <p>The default <em class="replaceable"><code>TARGET</code></em> is <span class="quote">“<span class="quote"><code class="filename">.</code></span>”</span>, meaning the repository URL of the current working copy directory.</p> <p>With <code class="option">--verbose</code> (<code class="option">-v</code>), <span class="command"><strong>svn list</strong></span> shows the following fields for each item:</p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> <li class="listitem"> <p>Revision number of the last commit</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>Author of the last commit</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>If locked, the letter <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">O</span>”</span> (see the preceding section on <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.c.info.html" title="svn info">svn info</a> for details).</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>Size (in bytes)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>Date and time of the last commit</p> </li> </ul> </div> <p>With <code class="option">--xml</code>, output is in XML format (with a header and an enclosing document element unless <code class="option">--incremental</code> is also specified). All of the information is present; the <code class="option">--verbose</code> (<code class="option">-v</code>) option is not accepted.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Options"> <a id="idp20509424"></a> <h2>Options</h2> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.depth"><code class="option">--depth</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>ARG</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.incremental"><code class="option">--incremental</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.recursive"><code class="option">--recursive</code> (<code class="option">-R</code>)</a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.revision"><code class="option">--revision</code> (<code class="option">-r</code>) <em class="replaceable"><code>REV</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.verbose"><code class="option">--verbose</code> (<code class="option">-v</code>)</a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.xml"><code class="option">--xml</code></a> </pre> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Examples"> <a id="idp20515536"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p><span class="command"><strong>svn list</strong></span> is most useful if you want to see what files a repository has without downloading a working copy:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svn list http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/support README.txt INSTALL examples/ … </pre> </div> <p>You can pass the <code class="option">--verbose</code> (<code class="option">-v</code>) option for additional information, rather like the Unix command <span class="command"><strong>ls -l</strong></span>:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svn list -v file:///var/svn/repos 16 sally 28361 Jan 16 23:18 README.txt 27 sally 0 Jan 18 15:27 INSTALL 24 harry Jan 18 11:27 examples/ </pre> </div> <p>You can also get <span class="command"><strong>svn list</strong></span> output in XML format with the <code class="option">--xml</code> option:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svn list --xml http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test <?xml version="1.0"?> <lists> <list path="http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test"> <entry kind="dir"> <name>examples</name> <size>0</size> <commit revision="24"> <author>harry</author> <date>2008-01-18T06:35:53.048870Z</date> </commit> </entry> ... </list> </lists> </pre> </div> <p>For further details, see the earlier section <a class="xref" href="svn.tour.history.html#svn.tour.history.browsing.list" title="Listing versioned directories">the section called “Listing versioned directories”</a>.</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="svn.ref.svn.c.info.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="svn.ref.svn.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="svn.ref.svn.c.lock.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">svn info </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> svn lock</td> </tr> </table> </div> <div xmlns="" id="vcws-footer"> <hr /> <img src="images/cc-by.png" style="float: right;" /> <p>You are reading <em>Version Control with Subversion</em> (for Subversion 1.8), by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. 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