RE: Repository revision keyword

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Key [mailto:cjk32@cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:13 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Repository revision keyword
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I know its possible to add $Revision$ to a file
> and have SVN substitute the last revision for that
> file. Is there any way to go further than this,
> and to have SVN substitute a string representing
> the status of the entire local repository.
> Ideally, something like the output produced by
> doing an svnversion on the immediately containing
> folder.

svnversion reports on the working copy. The hooks are server side and
know nothing about the working copy. The client would need to run
'svnversion' locally and add the information the checkin comment or as a
property. A pre-commit hook would need to verify the information.

However, why do you need such information? The working copy is very
temporary, so trying to record its state doesn't make sense unless you
have a problem with people checking in work from oddly constructed or
dirty working copies. Which could probably be solved with training
and/or beatings?

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Received on Mon Aug 28 16:51:50 2006