Re: Keyword to identify exported tag?

On 2005-11-05 11:48:09 +0000, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Or something like that - it's only been a few weeks and I'm already
> forgetting the syntax! Anyway the point is that CVS would replace
> $Name$ with the tag that I had used in the export command, so people
> looking at files from the tar could see what release they had come from.
> (This is my project release name/number, not the revision of the
> individual file or anything else.)
>
> I'd like to be able to do something similar with Subversion. It can
> happen either when I "svn copy" (or "svncopy.pl") to tag the release, or
> when I export to create the tar file. I already have a wrapper script
> to do the export-and-tar so that would be a good place to add it.
>
> Can anyone suggest a good way to do this?

With Subversion, this can already be done with the Rev keyword,
but you'll just get a number identifying the tag. The URL keyword
gives more information. Or you can just use sed, perl or whatever
if you think there won't be any problem with binary files.

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