Re: Putting the tag name in the tagged code

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 08:56, jason marshall wrote:
> I have a requirement for my code repository that I don't think is
> exotic, or honestly all that uncommon. I need to get accurate version
> information into any binary built from an SVN tag directory, for
> purposes of version tracking and customer support.
>
> I can certainly accomplish this with pre-built binaries. Many
> Continuous Integration tools have facilities for doing this (and
> generating the tags to begin with), but that only helps when I'm doing
> a binary distribution. Is there a way to accomplish the same thing
> (automatically!) with a source distribution?
>
> The general consensus seems to be that it's both unwise and fairly
> brittle to have an on-commit modification (such as code beautifying)
> to the source tree. However, with a tag we're generally NOT expecting
> anyone to update it, and at least in our case it's being created
> directly in the repository, so there is no repos/working directory
> inconsistency to mitigate.

Hmmm, what is it that you can't achieve with the existing placeholders that
SVN can replace in text files? The path and revision within a repository
should be enough, right?

Uli

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