Re: svn commit: rev 209 - trunk/subversion/include

sussman@tigris.org wrote:

>Author: sussman
>Date: 2001-10-04 15:09 GMT
>New Revision: 209
>
>Modified:
> trunk/subversion/include/svn_version.h
>Log:
>
>* svn_version.h (SVN_VER_TAG): Brane, I have no idea how the code can
> possibly know its own revision; but I do know that seeing "M3
> (r196)" all the time is confusing newbies. And nobody wants to
> update this number before each commit. Commenting out for now.
>
Yah.

What I actually had in mind was something like this:

    * Make the checked-in SVN_VER_TAG "development" or "prerelease",
      depending on the state of the tree.
    * When creating a development tarball,
         1. check out the tree
         2. change SVN_VER_TAG to "r$(($head_revision + 1))�
         3. check in svn_version.h
         4. if current $head_revision is greater than SVN_VER_TAG, back
            to (2)
         5. roll the tarball
         6. change SVN_VER_TAG back to whatever it was before

For a release tarball, the process is similar, except that in (2) you
#undef SVN_VER_TAG and make sure the version numbers are right.

All of this can be done by the distrib script. It's on my list of things
to do, as a matter of fact.

(If you try out my latest Win32 binary, you'll see why the tag can be
useful. :-)

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