Re: [semi-OT] Getting the last revision number of a repository from an Ant script

On 06/02/06, Dave Merrill <dmerrill@usa.net> wrote:
>
> My wc has src and dist dirs, standard I think. When I have some degree of
> "release" ready in src, I run an ant script that, among other things,
> copies
> the head revision into a temp dir outside the wc, uses SubWCRev.exe to
> insert revision info into one of the files in temp, then zips everything
> in
> temp up into a file in dist. All that remains is to commit the newly
> created
> zip file in dist, then create a copy of that dist/release state in tags.
>
> Weird part is that the revision with the updated zip that gets tagged
> isn't
> actually the one matching the revision number in the file in the zip. It
> has
> to be that way, because the dist commit is (at least) one after the commit
> it was created from.
>
> Is there any way around this? I know I want a tag of the actual distro, as
> well as the ability to create it again from sources, which seems
> inherently
> to lead to this situation. Is this process basically what others do?

How about creating the tag/branch first, export that revision and use
SubWCRev to insert the revision number into the export. Zip it up and commit
the zipped file to the tag/branch.

That also eliminates the possibility of a change (commit) slipping in
between the export and the tag/branch you do later on using your current
approach..

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Regards,
Jean-Marc
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