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I am trying to do the equivalent of the following Linux command with a Windows batch file and TortoiseSVN.

svn info > info.txt

I have tried the following with no luck:

start /wait "" "c:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\TortoiseProc.exe" /command:info >> %CD%\info.txt

I am running Windows with TortoiseSVN v1.6.16 so I don't have access to the command line tools.

Note: We were encountering issues with the newer version of TortoiseSVN so we went back to 1.6 until issues are resolved with a newer version and the company upgrades the server to that version.

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    Put the empty string "" before the /WAIT switch... Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 21:16
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    TortoiseSVN comes with a version of SVN to use at the command line. What's wrong with %ProgramFiles%\TortoiseSVN\bin\svn.exe info > info.txt? Or if TortoiseSVN is in your PATH (which it is by default) just svn info > info.txt? Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 21:58
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    @ken v1.6 doesn't have the command line tools. v1.8 did but we had issues with that version Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 22:04
  • @pcnate did you try version 1.7? Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 23:24
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    @pcnate then put pressure on the admins to get things upgraded. Having current and supported tools is important. And 1.9.x clients will still work perfectly fine with older servers. Even if you have to use TortoiseSVN 1.8, it'll be an improvement. Commented Dec 19, 2015 at 12:30

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Your construction didn't work, doesn't work and will never work due to zero-bits of trueness:

  • start (with and without /wait) have sense in bat-file only if you have more than one bat-process starting from this bat (compare with call), for called GUI it doesn't differ from direct using program-name
  • TortoiseProc is GUI-app after all, it emits nothing to stdout
  • Info was and is unknown command for TortoiseProc, thus you'll get only GUI-window "About"

:about Shows the about dialog. This is also shown if no command is given

In addition to correct suggestion "Update to at least 1.8 on client and have CLI-tools" you can consider following solutions:

  • Install from unrelated to TortoiseSVN sources pure CLI SVN-client (also 1.6.* - from WanDisco will be good choice) at the same as TSVN or another location (I done it at the times of 1.6)
  • Study and use subwcrev (it was part of TortoiseSVN even in 1.6, AFAICR) and emulate some part of svn info in subwcrev's template-file with correct keywords
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1.8 was broken for us, I am going to wait until corp will get us 1.9 and try again.
Unfortunately version 1.9 also hangs with a timeout. What the heck is going on with SVN 1.8+?

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