How to display content of an svn repository?

Question

I check out (down load) subdirectories from our svn repository in the following way: svn co file:///home/svnrepository/aaa/bbb/ccc and it works.

The problem is that I am doing it "blindly" because, at the moment, I do not know how can I see the content of the svn repository. If I use cd with auto-complete (pressing tabs) I get cd file:///home/svnrepository/ (so, it looks like my operating system sees that this directory exists). However, when I execute the last cd I get: Directory is not found.

If I have cd file:///home/svnrepository/ in the command line and press tabs I get the following output:

conf/       db/         format      hooks/      locks/      README.txt

It is strange, that in this way I do not get aaa subdirectory that I way able check out.

ls file:///home/svnrepository/ also does not work (directory is not found).

So, now my problem is that I need to down load tools subdirectory from the repository but I do not know where it is (in what directory) and I also do not know how to find out where it is. For example I do not know if I should type svn co file:///home/svnrepository/tools or svn co file:///home/svnrepository/aaa/tools or svn co file:///home/svnrepository/aaa/bbb/tools.

Does any body know how can I browse the file structure of an svn server?

EDIT

I was able to execute cd /home/svnrepository/ (so, I needed to remove file://). But in this directory I do not see aaa subdirectory which I was able to check out with svn co file:///home/svnrepository/aaa.

Answer 1

For listing directory from SVN you can use

svn ls file:///home/svnrepository/

keep going further with each svn ls command and reach the file you need.

Note- In your case, the repository looks to be local and thus you can actually do ls directly without using "file":

ls /home/svnrepository/