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

It depends on the platform you are using. If you are using TSVN then there is a program (SubWCRev I think) that can do things like you want.
But as far as I am aware it is not official SVN functionality, and likely never will be since (to my understanding) the SVN devs don't want client-side scripting; though a number of SVN clients do support it (like TSVN).

What you want to do, however, is best left for your build tools to do. If you need multi-platform support that is a bit harder; but still possible, especially with tools like CMake, which can help you with this kind of scripting functionality - but I'd leave that to the CMake folks (cmake.org) and their mailing lists for how to do it.

HTH,

Ben

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From: "Leyendecker, Robert" <Robert.Leyendecker_at_lsi.com>
To: users_at_subversion.tigris.org
Sent: Tue, December 8, 2009 2:43:17 PM
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?
 
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?

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