On Nov 5, 2005, at 17:52, Phil Endecott wrote:
> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> On Nov 5, 2005, at 12:48, Phil Endecott wrote:
>>> CVS would replace $Name$ with the tag that I had used in the
>>> export command
>> Would $URL:$ work for you? It would contain the full URL, which,
>> if you export a tag, would contain the name of the tag.
>
> I'm hoping that someone can suggest something better. The URL
> contains lots of distracting stuff in addition to the release name.
Subversion has no concept of a release name, so it cannot provide
better. To Subversion, it's all just directories. No directory is any
more or less significant than any other.
> The aim is that someone who looks at the file can quickly work out
> what they're dealing with. Scenario: someone asks a question on
> the project mailing list and I think "I bet they're using an old
> version" and I ask them to check.
>
> A related thing is this:
>
> const char* version = "$Name$";
>
> void usage() {
> printf("Gnomovision version %s\n",version);
> }
>
> In this case you could have the program parse the actual version
> out of the URL string before printing it, but again I wonder if
> anyone has any better ideas.
This may be relevant:
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#version-value-in-source
Though I think for $URL$ you could just put it in the source file,
since it wouldn't change with every revision. And then you could
parse it as you like.
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Received on Sat Nov 5 18:47:17 2005