svn list — List directory entries in the repository.
svn list [TARGET[@REV]...]
List each TARGET file and the contents of each TARGET directory as they exist in the repository. If TARGET is a working copy path, the corresponding repository URL will be used.
The default TARGET is “.”, meaning the repository URL of the current working copy directory.
With --verbose, the following fields show the status of the item:
Revision number of the last commit
Author of the last commit
Size (in bytes)
Date and time of the last commit
With --xml, output is in XML format (with a header and an enclosing document element unless --incremental is also specified). All of the information is present; the --verbose option is not accepted.
ls
Nothing
Yes
--revision (-r) REV --verbose (-v) --recursive (-R) --incremental --xml --username USER --password PASS --no-auth-cache --non-interactive --config-dir DIR
svn list is most useful if you want to see what files a repository has without downloading a working copy:
$ svn list http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/support README.txt INSTALL examples/ …
You can pass the --verbose switch for additional information, rather like the UNIX command ls -l:
$ svn list --verbose file:///tmp/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/
For further details, see the section called “svn list”.