Find the version of a Subversion respository

To find the version of a Subversion repository you will need to have file system access on the server where the repository is hosted.

For this example we'll assume that your repository lives here:

/var/lib/svn/main

Just read the contents of the db/format file inside your repository directory to find the version.>

cat /var/lib/svn/main/db/format
4
layout linear

The first line gives the database format version which relates to the repository version:

Last updated: 02/05/2011