svnversion feature

Hi,

I am in the process of putting together make files for firmware builds and run into an issue that I didn't see addressed in any of the issues lists. One of the things I want to do is to tag the SVN revision that a binary was built from onto the file name (this was actually requested by manufacturing and I agree with their view point). The revision is easy enough to get from svnversion. The problem is, that when I run it in my working directory, inevitably I get a mixed revision result, even if I have just committed (something like 3:26). While this may be informative to me as a developer, this is not something I can embed in a file name. At the same time Make has no ability to extract just the part after the colon.

I see three solutions to this problem:

  1. create another directory and do a clean checkout of the version I just committed. I tried this and it works well. Cumbersome though.
  2. implement an external tool that runs svnversion and then disassembles the result to get the correct number for use in a file name. Ugly, too many tools needed already to get every day work done.
  3. implement an option in svnversion that makes it to only spit out the highest revision number (no colon). Alternatively, the colon could be replaced by any character the user likes. That way something compatible with the file system can be chosen. I guess what I meant to say is, it would be nice to have control over the format in which svnversion reports the version.

Thanks for taking the time to read and form an opinion about this.

Elmar
Received on 2012-06-07 18:49:36 CEST