Take advantage of environments where /home is an NFS export from the server which also hosts Subversion.

qsvn.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Take advantage of environments where Subversion server also NFS exports /home to make more efficient Subversion operations.

require 'net/ssh'
server = "admin01"
temporary_root = "file:///srv/svn"
pwd = ENV["PWD"]
user = ENV["USER"]
remote_command = "cd #{pwd} && svn " + ARGV.join(" ")
lock_file = ".qsvn_lock"

if File.exists?(lock_file)
    puts "#{pwd} is locked by another qsvn process"
    exit 1
else
    File.new(lock_file, File::CREAT)
end

Net::SSH.start( server, user ) do |ssh|
    remote_root = ssh.exec!("svn info #{pwd}")[/Root: (.*)/, 1]
    repository_name = remote_root.split("/")[-1]
    temporary_root += "/" + repository_name
    puts "Temporarily using #{temporary_root} for repository root."
    ssh.exec!("svn switch --relocate #{remote_root} #{temporary_root}/#{repository_name} #{pwd}")
    puts "Running: #{remote_command}"
    puts ssh.exec!(remote_command) do |channel, stream, data|
        print data
    end
    puts "Restoring original repository root, #{remote_root}."
    ssh.exec!("svn switch --relocate #{temporary_root}/#{repository_name} #{remote_root} #{pwd}")
end

File.delete(lock_file)