SVN question

[Yuval Kogman]

svn log -q --limit 1  http://code2.0beta.co.uk/moose/svn/ | perl -ne
'print $1 if /r(\d+)/'


On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 22:56:09 +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
> I have a Makefile that produces a package. All well and good. And as a 
> good developer I want that package to have a major and minor version 
> number. Also well and good.
> 
> Now the major version i can set for myself and I can work out the minor 
> number using
> 
>  # Version is set manually
>  VERSION     = 2.0
>  # Work out the revision from the SVN revision
>  # This will be automatically updated when we commit
>  REVISION    = `echo '$Revision$\' | cut -d ' ' -f 2`
> 
> So that's fine. Except I don't want to have to touch then commit the 
> Makefile everytime.
> 
> Now I'd like people who do a svn export as well as an svn co to be able 
> to do this so that rules out grubbing through .svn directories. I'd also 
> rather not have a $Revision$ in every file and then recursively grep 
> through all of them looking for the highest number.
> 
> Is there anyway to force a file to always be updated on every commit?
> 
> Simon
> 
> 

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