Re: Check youngest revision of tree

On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 11:26 -0400, Young, Jason (GE Infrastructure)
wrote:
> Does anyone know how I can get the latest revision number of a
> particular folder WITHOUT checking it out? I looked at SVNLook, but it
> only works on the root. I also looked at SVN Info and SVN status, and
> you need a working copy for them.

> I'm trying to set up a daily build, and I don't want to rebuild unless
> files have changed in a certain tree. I don't want to get all of the
> files each time just to check. It would be nice if it was a quick
> operation so that I could choose to poll more often without penalty if I
> decide to do that.

First, doing an update is very cheap if nothing has changed, so I
wouldn't worry about it. Make a working copy that's just the tree you
want, and then run update.

If you want to get the number:

svn info . | awk '$1 == "Revision:" {print $2}'

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