Re: Global revision keyword

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 10:02:23 -0400, Mark Phippard
<MarkP@softlanding.com> wrote :

>But why do developers need or care about this information anyway? I
>thought the issue was that you have a user-base that are pulling from your
>repository or tarballs, and it is with those people that you need this
>information? Developers could just use svnversion as part of a
>build/tarball process.

Lots of our users build their own copies, they don't use the binary
builds that we produce (because R runs on lots of different platforms,
but we have a limited number of builds). When they find a bug in a
snapshot, we want them to be able to tell us which snapshot it was in.

>If you are on Windows, there is also a nice program named SubWCRev.exe
>available from the TortoiseSVN project. This is similar to svnversion,
>except it will do keyword substitition in a file for you.

Thanks for the pointer. I may use that.

Duncan Murdoch

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