Re: rationale for 'svnversion' (vs 'svn version') ?

John Peacock wrote:
> The revision number is an internal bookkeeping value - an artifact of
> the repository structure. It /can/ be used to denote a point in time
> for the repository as a whole, but it is much better to create a tag
> which can contain meta information significant to the developer (like a
> standard tag with the date/time embedded in the name).
>
> I'm not saying that your method is wrong, merely that it is not using
> the Subversion tools most effectively.

Sorry for my not really informed chopping into the discussion - but I
guess having to modify the repository itself just to capture a state for
the duration of a build script (which could just as well be captured by
reading a value and storing it in a shell variable or equivalent), isn't
a really efficient use of available tools and resources either...

mortee

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