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RE: Re: svn-ant how to get latest revision?

From: Mark Reibert <svn_at_reibert.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:24:17 -0700

Yup, although it was my impression the OP did not want to update ...

Also, a purist like me prefers to build from "svn export" rather than
"svn co", in which case "svnversion -c" is not an option (so I use other
tricks involving "svn info" on repo tags).

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 17:41 -0700, DW Dennis Wheeler wrote:
> or you can simply use
> svnversion -c
> on your working directory
> (both before and after an 'svn update' for starting and ending revision
> numbers to generate changelogs for the build)
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Reibert [mailto:mark_at_reibert.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:53 PM
> > To: futung.cheng_at_yahoo.com
> > Cc: users_at_subversion.tigris.org; user_at_ant.apache.org
> > Subject: 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.
> > >
> > > 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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