1) would 'svn info' give you sufficient information? Path: . Working Copy Root Path: /home/BLAH/BLAH URL: svn://SERVER/BLAH Relative URL: ^/ Repository Root: svn://SERVER/BLAH Repository UUID: BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH Revision: 1489 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: BLAH Last Changed Rev: 1489 Last Changed Date: 2018-05-27 09:40:12 -0400 (Sun, 27 May 2018) 2) you can also see the history of checkins with 'svn log' this will show the last 3 events svn log -l 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1489 | BLAH | 2018-05-27 09:40:12 -0400 (Sun, 27 May 2018) | 1 line useful comment ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1488 | BLAH | 2018-05-26 21:13:40 -0400 (Sat, 26 May 2018) | 1 line another useful comment ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r1487 | BLAH | 2018-05-26 09:03:19 -0400 (Sat, 26 May 2018) | 1 line 3) Also repeating 'svn up' after running your app would reduce the chance of conflicts, ie svn up genealogyK svn up svn commit 4) finally 'svn status -q' will return nothing if everything is fine, or report issues if not. On 27/05/18 13:20, J C Nash wrote: > Somehow I think this should be easy, but my efforts so far have not been successful. > I must be missing something obvious. > > I'm wanting to share edits of genealogy files with my wife on several computers. (I can > give some chapter and verse on what we tried for genealogy software at a meeting sometime. > We settled on GenealogyJ for now.) > > The important data collection is a GEDCOM file and a directory tree of image files, and > I put this on a server which runs svn and ssh. Mary can doubleclick on the GEDCOM in > a file manager (Double Commander or Caja or ...) to initiate my script (call it genj), > which is important, since she doesn't much like command-line, and often gets into the > wrong directory in a terminal. The script then has the general form > > svn up > > genealogyJ > > svn commit > > Now the glitchy bit. I want to see what subversion is doing i.e., did it get an > update, and is there any conflict i.e., have we been editing at the same time? > Also did the commit complete OK? > > I currently have zenity displaying a message, but it only says what is being > attempted. > > Cheers, JN > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org > To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org > > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org