> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Crosta [mailto:dcrosta@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 3 October 2006 2:38 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: keyword text substitution
>
>
> 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 and so the version string will pretty much always be out of date.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?
>
> thanks,
> - d
>
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TortoiseSVN has a utility called subwcrev that seems to achieve the purpose
that you are trying to achieve, although by a different mechanism. I have
an ugly hacked up version of that code that compiles on Linux if you're not
a Windows user.
Peter.
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