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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Yves Goergen
<nospam.list_at_unclassified.de>wrote:
> On 27.08.2009 22:17 CE(S)T, Kenneth Goldman wrote:
> > The problem I see with this is that if you ever 'svn export' your source
> > to some other person who doesn't have access to the repository, they
> > won't be able to compile, because they will have $Revision$ rather
> > than a real value.
>
> No, the "$Revision$" is of course not in effective source code as it
> would be totally in the way there. It's just in a // comment line so the
> compiler won't ever see that information. My script just tries to grab
> it from that line and copy the bare number into the active code line so
> that it can compile. The repository always has the version number
> "x.x.x.0" in that place, so if you won't use the script, you just won't
> have the revision number in the code, that's all.
>
> Right now the script throws an error and aborts the build if it cannot
> find a revision number, but that could be turned off as well.
>
> But anyway, whenever the file AssemblyInfo.cs is fetched from the repo,
> it should always have that keyword expanded, if I understood that right,
> so everybody who works offline on a repo dump can use it as well, just
> with a maybe outdated revision number in it. But those builds are not
> supposed to go to our client anyway.
>
So what should happen with the keyword upon commits and/or updates, or
(worse still) mixed revision working copies? If AssemblyInfo.cs hasn't been
changed, then my understanding is that it won't be scanned for keyword
substitution during either action.
>
> BTW, my first try was to use something like this:
>
> [assembly:AssemblyVersion("1.0.0." + "$Revision$".Substring(...))]
>
> but the C# compiler expects static or constant values there.
>
Cheers,
Daniel B.
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