Check that an svn repository url does not exist

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I am writing a script which will add a new project in the repository, based on the name supplied by the user. Part of this involves checking that an url with the same name does not already exist on the repository.

In the repository, all the projects of our team are stored in

https://developernetwork.repo.net/svn/Projects/

Let's say that the user wants to call the project "Calculator" and runs the script. In this case, we need to ensure that the following does not already exist in the repository

https://developernetwork.repo.net/svn/Projects/Calculator/

Is there an svn command which I can use to accomplish that? Unfortunately I cannot see an appropriate command I can use in the svn documentation (http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/svn-book.html) at all.

svn command-line
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You can just use 

svn ls https://developernetwork.repo.net/svn/Projects/Calculator/

It will tell you if the repository(directory) exist or not.

Update

for directories with many files use: 

svn ls http://server/svn/foo --depth empty
Liwen_334490

To receive information about any existing repository (e.g. for possibly enriching an error message) you could also use 

svn info https://developernetwork.repo.net/svn/Projects/Calculator/

For a non-existing project it will just return 

svn: Could not open the requested SVN filesystem
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