[Python-Dev] Expose Subversion revision number to Python

[John J Lee]

On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Phillip J. Eby wrote:
[...to-and-fro re magic required to get a good SVN revision...]

Shouldn't the command 'svnversion' be used instead? -

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/re57.html


It's true that the output of this command does change with 'svn up', even 
if the update makes no changes to files under version control in your 
working copy.  It *seems* to be sane & reproducible once you've done a 
single svn up, though (and if there are no locally modified files, mixed 
checkouts etc., the version it reports will be a single revision number 
with no non-numeric characters).



John