svnversion documentation bug in the redbook

[Stefan Sperling]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 02:30:37PM +0000, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svnversion.re.html states:
> 
> > If invoked on a directory that is not a working copy, svnversion
> > assumes it is an exported working copy and prints "exported":
> >
> > $ svnversion exported
> 
> 
> However, calling svnversion.exe 1.7.2 (r1207936), installed by the
> TortoiseSVN 64 Bit installer, outputs the message "Unversioned
> directory":
> 
> > D:\>svnversion Unversioned directory
> 
> 
> I did not test with older svn versions, as I have no older version
> available here right now, but this may be either a documentation bug
> or inaccuracy, or it also might be an incompatible change which is
> likely to break some scripts relying on the documented behaviour.

This is new behaviour in 1.7. See r877617 and related commits.