Re: svn-ant how to get latest revision?

Use svn info on the repository itself (not your working copy). Something
like:

svn info $( svn info | grep 'Root:' | awk -F': ' '{print $2}' ) \
    | grep Revision | awk '{print $2}'

On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 23:54 -0700, Fu-Tung Cheng wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out which command I can use from svn-ant that will get me the highest revision from the repository.
>
> I've tried svn-info but both the rev and lastRev properties return the working copies revision number.
>
> I've also tried the wcVersion task but again that just tells you the working copies last revision.
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> In order for me to get the information it appears I need to update my working copy to the latest and then call one of these targets. Shouldn't there be a way using svn-ant to just get the latest version?
>
> Does no one automate tasks using ant and svn? The svn-ant tasks seem somewhat less mature than I would have expected.
>
> If I was using maven to do my building would I find better support?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> Fu-Tung
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