Question

I have an svn repository, that I used a while back. I am pretty sure that I have some uncommitted changes in a working directory that lies somewhere, on one of my machines. However, I cannot find the working directory (possibly have deleted it by chance).

This seems like a long-shot. Does the repository contain any information about the checked out directories. Specifically, the ip/hostname of the machine that remotely (ssh) checks out the trunk?

-Thanks

Answer 1

No, the svn repository contains no information about checked out directories. The operation svn checkout is basically a read-only operation.

However, you may find information about the clients in other places – depending on how you access the repository. If you access the repository with http/apache, you will find the clients including ip addresses in the apache log files. If you access the repository with ssh, you may find information in /var/log/auth.