RE: svnversion output changed when redirecting the output. Why?

From: Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2016 13:29:53 +0100

This is a known issue with some slightly older builds of TortoiseSVN.

Please upgrade and otherwise (re-)report the issue at the TortoiseSVN project as this is (was) caused by their specific build scripts.

This issue is (was) caused by linking and using multiple CRT instances inside the same program, causing undefined behavior inside Visual C++ code.

Bert

From: Steenveld, Andre [mailto:A.H.M.Steenveld_at_marin.nl]
Sent: woensdag 10 februari 2016 16:09
To: users_at_subversion.apache.org
Subject: svnversion output changed when redirecting the output. Why?

Hi,

I’m working with svn (via TortoiseSVN) versions 1.7, 1.8 and 1.9 and due to external factors I cannot bring it up to the same version.

Also, I’m using svn via the TortoiseSVN package but I believe that my question is related to svn and not to TortoseSVN, please correct me it this is not the case.

I use the svnversion command to keep track of versions in my sandboxes. For this I redirect the output from svnversion to a file and use that file in other parts.

For versions 1.7 and 1.8 the command line output from svnversion is identical to the redirected output. But for version 1.9 it is not and there is no command line option to get it to the `old style’ output.

Here is an example for 1.8

C:\…> svnversion .

22923:22924M

C:\...>svnversion . > output.txt

C:\...>type output.txt

22923:22924M

And here is the same example but now for 1.9

C:\…> svnversion .

22923:22924M

C:\...>svnversion . > output.txt

C:\...>type output.txt

22923:22924