Check that an svn repository url does not exist

Question

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

Answer 1

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