Re: Feature request: SubWCRev if not inside a working copy

On 19.10.2009 20:50, Gingko wrote:

> I generally use SubWCRev from within a script (actually most of the time
> from a Visual Studio project rule, which is a kind of script).
> That way, I can generate a C or C++ header file from a template file.
>
> I suppose that calling SubWCRev from a script is a probably a very common
> usage of it.
>
> On another hand, whereas the whole main project is maintained inside a
> versioned directory, it is very common that I make an unversioned copy of
> this same directory, side by side in a common root directory, that I use
> for testing changes that I am not sure if I will decide to commit or not.
>
> This twin project is anyway fully working, but because SubWCRev needs a
> working copy, I have to make some changes in this twin project in order to
> remove SubWCRev usage, whereas I would like to have all of its contents
> being basically as identical as possible to the versioned one (except of
> course for my testing changes).
>
> As I use a directory comparison software for finding differences between
> these directories, I would like SubWCRev not needing any change for being
> able to run in the versioned or in the non versioned directory.
>
> So I think it would be great if SubWCRev could run without error even in a
> non versioned directory, of course not for getting correct version numbers
> (I don't care of these numbers in this case), but rather for not breaking
> project generations.
>

Sorry, but that's not the job of SubWCRev. It has to throw an error in
case you're using it on an unversioned folder.
But you can change your script to catch that error and then either write
default values to your version file, or copy a template version file to
the destination.
SubWCRev is a tool with a specific purpose. If you want to do more with
it, you have to do that in your own script.

Stefan

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