Hi John, I tried a couple of commands with svn and they all seemed to return 0, including trying to "svn add" a non-existent file. So it looks like the normal shell script technique of checking $? as the next step after a command won't work. Subversion has API's for several languages. Perl and Python are both listed. There are some examples in the redbean book. - http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.6/svn-book.html Good luck, and I hope this helps. Rob -- Rob Echlin, B. Eng. 613-266-8311 - Ottawa, ON http://talksoftware.wordpress.com - http://picasaweb.google.com/coderoller >________________________________ > From: Prof J C Nash (U30A) <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> >To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:13:53 PM >Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] detecting subversion not connected > > >Hi, > >I've a small script to allow me to update a sort of diary log. The >process is, in summary form, > > svn update > gedit myfile > svn -m "put it back" commit > >I'd like to detect a failure to connect on the update and/or commit >stages so that I can do something that lets me locally save changes to >update later. Somehow I think this should be fairly common, but my >search so far had not been fruitful. > >Best, JN >_______________________________________________ >Linux mailing list >Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca >http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > >