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I access a large remote SVN repository. Since I usually only need a tiny subset of its content I did a "sparse checkout":

svn checkout --depth empty svn+ssh://... src

Whenever I need a folder from the repository I can just do

svn up folder

and when I don't need it anymore I use

svn up --set-depth exclude folder

But now I need a complete list of all the files in the repository and I don't want to do a complete checkout just to get the file and folder names.

I already tried svn ls -R which will indeed list some files I didn't check out but still there are some missing. I know because it does show everything in the current directory. Now I could semi-manually execute svn ls and svn up --depth empty for every new-found directory, but I wonder if there is some better alternative.

In contrast to How do I list all files ever committed to the repository? I'm only interested in the current content of the repository and I do not have access to svnadmin. Neither can I install software on the repository server.

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This lists all files recursively:

svn ls -R URL-OF-REPO
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Thanks! Explicitly using the repo URL did the trick. And yes, -R can be used.
FYI...Something that caused me to waste a lot of time is that SVN externals don't show in the output from the above command. Your directory structure of a working copy on disk won't match the output of 'svn ls' if you have externals. Keep that in mind if you are comparing them somehow as I was.
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svn list --recursive https://myrespository.my.com/Myproject

I think that works for current and all subdirectories as I tried. This one lists all branches and tags as well, and all their subdirectories and files.

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You can try my utility fast-svn-crawler, it is much faster than "svn list --recursive".

$ svn-crawler https://myrespository.my.com/Myproject
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Thanks for building this! A quick build note: On CentOS 6 box I had to modify the CMakeLists.txt file to change "include/apr-1.0" to "include/apr-1".
Awesome tool. Is there a way to include file sizes as well?
No, file sizes retrieving would require a separate request for each file; that would slow down the utility a lot. It could easily print [additionally] only "last changed revision", "last changed date", and "the author of the last change" (this information is in svn:entry:* properties that are received within the same request).
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Without URL

svn list --recursive -r HEAD

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If you want to get a complete list of all the files and not the folders, you can pipe svn list and grep command like this:

svn list -R svn://url/to/your/main/folder/on/repo | grep '[^\/]$'

the path to folders listed by

svn list -R svn://url/to/your/main/folder/on/repo

always ends with "/" while file path doesn't. The output is passed as an input to

grep '[^\/]$'

which excludes all the paths having a trailing "/"; the remaining paths are only related to files.

Example: let's assume we have a repository named myrepo on my.svnserver.com as a domain, and we want to get all the files listed in a subdirectory of myrepo i.e. mysubdir: the command is

svn list -R svn://my.svnserver.com/myrepo/mysubdir | grep '[^\/]$'

Also, if you pipe the result to wc -l command (which prints the number of newlines, as each output line contains one path only), you can get the number of all the files under mysubdir, like this

svn list -R svn://my.svnserver.com/myrepo/mysubdir | grep '[^\/]$' | wc -l
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