How to find the common ancestor of two branches in SVN?

Question

Imagine you\'ve got a big SVN tree with branches all over the place. There is the trunk, there are branches, those branches have branches, etc. So, given two branches in the

Answer 1

Look at the logs at root of the tree. Branching operations will be indicated as copy operations, so you can reconstruct a full ancestor tree of what was copied from where. Leave that code running overnight and you'll have the complete copy tree the next morning, which you can then use to identify common ancestors of your branches.

Next time, you can resume work from the last revision you processed.