Where are the windows binaries for the command line version of svn??
Everywhere I search, it has to be some company's fancy client software with an installer.
Just give me the plain command-line binaries, where the hell are they??
I'm working on a machine where I don't have administrator account
The Command Line Client from CollabNet, while it does have an installer for windows, all it asks you is where you want to put the files, and then finish. Its just the command line client, like it says, nothing else. Subversion doesn't distribute their own binaries.
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The client-side binaries ship with the source, as well as several other packaged installers.
The former direct links don't work, but the subversion project now provides several offsite links to Windows binaries:
I use Slik SVN. It doesn't require a bunch of registration information like the CollabNet one does.
Get the version from Slik SVN, which doesn't require registration, and you should be able to install it anywhere you want (and have permissions).
If you can't run the installer, you could always try extracting the files from it using UniExtract, or possibly Total Commander with the MSI plugin.
You could always use cygwin and install the subversion package during install which would make it accessible in command prompt (with some $PATH changes) but I understand if this doesn't fit your criteria of 'just binaries'.
Edit: I understand why people are downvoting but it was just a last resort suggestion to getting the binaries for subversion. To answer the question 'why install all of cygwin if you just need subversion': I find that originally being a linux app that I'd be more comfortable using subversion in a *nix environment such as cygwin and could consequently leverage GNU utils such as find, grep, bash etc to perform file based operations, which subversion primarily deals with.
I suggested it because of this and I thought it would be the easiest and quickest way to get subversion as the OP had expressed dismay about finding legitimate binaries: a few clicks and you're done. It was a suggestion that was asked for and in my original comment I had the caveat of installing cygwin right there.
I have hust found this: http://alagazam.net/ . I haven't tried it out, though.