Re: youngest trunk revision?

On Apr 13, 2006, at 08:49, Alex Teslik wrote:

> I would like to know the youngest revision of only the trunk of my
> repository. I know "svnlook youngest RPATH" will tell me the latest
> revision
> number, but it tells the latest for the entire repository - not
> just the trunk.
>
> The reason I would like this number is because I would like a
> cron job that
> monitors the respository and automatically creates a snapshot
> tarball, but
> only when the repository has changed since the last tarball. I
> suppose I could
> throw perl at it and extract the information from some other
> commands, but is
> there a better way?

> P.S.- post hooks are not a good solution since the commits may be
> too frequent
> for the tarball to be made before the next commit.

You could, however, use a very short hook script to see if the commit
is happening on trunk, and if so, record the revision number in a
file. Then the cronjob could read that file to determine the youngest
revision of trunk.

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Received on Thu Apr 13 12:27:48 2006