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Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
>I didn't say, it behaves wrong. My point is that I need to know that I
>am using it, and not another svn, if all I know is "there's a svn binary
>in my path".

This isn't Subversion's responsibility; the problem is more general: how do you
tell if the version of awk, sed or vim are Cygwin ones or not (or ones compiled
containing a specific patch, or built on a particular day, or any other of a
myriad of different things that could make a difference to an executable's
behaviour)?

The general problem has a general solution: check your path and actually
determine which executable you're using. As marco pointed out, use `which` from
a Cygwin shell; from a Windows cmd shell the equivalent command is `where`:

    C:\>where svn
    C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Client\svn.exe
    C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin\svn.exe

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