[Subclipse-users] scope of revisionProperty from status in svn-ant task

I wish to set an ant property with the number of the revision so I can later
use it in a propset. Weirdly, the scope of the variable only seems to be
_outside_ the <svn> element.

<svn username="user1" password="user1password" javahl="true">
        <copy srcUrl="https://myserver/svn/repos/connectfour/trunk"
                destUrl="https://myserver/svn/repos/connectfour/branch-${branch-number}"
                message="Branch-${branch-number} created" />

        <checkout url=""https://myserver/svn/repos/connectfour/trunk"
                destPath="connectfour" />
                        
        <status path="connectfour/README.txt" revisionProperty="status.revision" />
<propset path="connectfour" name="subclipse:tags"
value="${status.revision},connectfour-${branch-number},/connectfour-${branch-number},branch" />
...
</svn>
<echo message="Status Revision: ${status.revision}" />

Now, in the propset, the ${status.revision} is evaluated as an empty string,
but once the echo is reached, the number is output. I then suspected this
weird inverse scope problem and changed the script to:

<svn username="user1" password="user1password" javahl="true">
        <copy srcUrl="https://myserver/svn/repos/connectfour/trunk"
                destUrl="https://myserver/svn/repos/connectfour/branch-${branch-number}"
                message="Branch-${branch-number} created" />

        <checkout url=""https://myserver/svn/repos/connectfour/trunk"
                destPath="connectfour" />
                        
        <status path="connectfour" revisionProperty="status.revision" />
</svn>
<svn username="user1" password="user1password" javahl="true">
<propset path="connectfour" name="subclipse:tags"
value="${status.revision},connectfour-${branch-number},/connectfour-${branch-number},branch" />
...
</svn>
<echo message="Status Revision: ${status.revision}" />

and in that case, the variable in the second svn block in propset get read
perfectly.

That seems....odd, to say the least. Any ideas? This seems like a bug to me.

CCing replies to me would be great, I promise, on my third svn ant problem
I'll join the list. :-)

Cheers.

Douglas

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Douglas PW Russell
Research Officer / Systems Administrator - GIMI
Research Officer / Systems Administrator - NeuroGrid
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
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email:	douglas.russell@comlab.ox.ac.uk