AW: keyword text substitution

Dan Crosta <mailto:dcrosta@gmail.com> schrieb am Montag, 2. Oktober 2006 18:38:

> I've been working on a project for a while, and would like to have
> development copies have a version number like 0.1.<revision #>. This
> is python, so I've been setting a variable __version__ in an
> __init__.py file in the package directory for this project. I had
> used the line:
>
> __version__ = '0.1.%s' % ('$Rev$'.split(' ')[1])
>
> which I thought was pretty clever, except that it doesn't work --
> because the line only gets updated by svn whenever the file gets
> updated, not whenver you run 'svn update' on the working copy it lives
> in. since there's not much besides license text and a few metadata
> variables in this __init__.py file, it won't get updated frequently,
> and so the version string will pretty much always be out of date.
>
> is there a way (some svn keyword perhaps?) that i can make subversion
> redo this substitution every time an svn update or svn commit happens?
> (are there any other commands that can change the revision of a
> working copy?) or am i barking up the wrong tree?

Probably this FAQ item is what you're looking for: http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#version-value-in-source

>
> thanks,
> - d
>
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you're welcome

fg

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