Re: workaround for $WorkingRevision$ ?

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

> Bill Comisky <bcomisky@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > Suffice to say I'd like to have my code "know" somehow what the HEAD
> > revision number was when the wc was last updated/checked out/exported.
> >
> > Am I making sense yet? :)
>
> Sure. You want your code to assume that the whole working copy is at
> a single working revision, and to push that revision into generated
> data.
>
> So maybe your code can simply run 'svnversion' on the wc? That's the
> reason Philip wrote svnversion.
>

Cool, I didn't know about svnversion. For exported code, I'll just make
sure to make a tag first & then parse $HeadURL$.

thanks,
bill

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Received on Wed Jun 18 21:46:17 2003