Re: What is the easiest way to determine the HEAD revision number?

Garrick Olson wrote:
>
>
> Some code I am writing needs to determine the latest revision number in
> the repository.
>

Is this not what you want?

> $ svnversion
> usage: svnversion [options] wc_path [trail_url]
>
> Produce a compact "version number" for the working copy path
> WC_PATH. TRAIL_URL is the trailing portion of the URL used to
> determine if WC_PATH itself is switched (detection of switches
> within WC_PATH does not rely on TRAIL_URL). The version number
> is written to standard output.

NOTE: this is the highest revision for this WC path, which is, I think, what you
are getting from your 'svn log...' call as well. Neither will give the highest
(i.e. most recent) commit to the _entire_ repository. For that, you should use:

> $ svnlook help youngest
> youngest: usage: svnlook youngest REPOS_PATH
>
> Print the youngest revision number.

HTH

John

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