RE: Any simple way to set/get global revision number?

> Subject: Any simple way to set/get global revision number?
>
> Say I have a c file called version.h and in this file is a macro to
> build a version string using $HeadURL$ and $Revision$.  When a user
> runs the program this information is printed into the log file to
> help isolate problems to specific versions that change on daily
> basis.
>
> Is there a way to set a property so that this version.h file is
> automatically checked out whenever an update is made to the
> directory even if the version.h file is not touched? Or conversely,
> is there a way to have it automatically checked in as a changed
> file whenever a commit is done on any other file in the directory?

No, not that I know of.

> I'm trying to avoid having to manually run/maintain external
> scripts or programs like svnversion to scrape/touch/alter version
> files and force changes since the src files may be ported to
> different systems and I want the svn info embedded into a single
> version file.
>
> Am I out of luck for an easy solution?

I think the most common method here is to implement this in a build script and use a CI server that builds each check in. I know this is what you say this is what you want to avoid.... but I'm not quite sure why?

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#version-value-in-source

BOb

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Received on 2009-12-08 20:56:03 CET