Easy way to access SVN revision in code?

CyberKitsune · February 16, 2012, 11:23am

Hello Chief-Delphi,

Our team uses a Subversion server to revise and store our code, and I was wondering if anyone knows a good, platform-independent way to access the SVN revision from within the code of the program.

I’ve seen a ANT build script that uses svnversion, but that would only work properly on Linux or OSX machines, and it doesn’t use the SVN client built-in to NetBeans on Windows.

If anyone has a good method of achieving this, I’d love to know It’d be very helpful for the team I’m in, and likely many others that use Version Control.

-Sean “CyberKitsune”
Lead Programmer for the NeoBots

BradAMiller · February 16, 2012, 5:04pm

For the automated builds of the C++ WPILib libraries we use sliksvn (a command line svn tool) and a .vbs script that executes an svn command and gets the version number. It uses it to name the installer based on the svn version number.

Brad

CyberKitsune · February 16, 2012, 7:17pm

Thank you for the quick reply, Brad!

Do you know if there is an easy way to do this with Java’s build system? (ANT)

codedr · February 18, 2012, 9:57am

This works for ant:

&lt;condition property="isWindows"&gt;
    &lt;os family="windows" /&gt;
&lt;/condition&gt;

&lt;target name="do.run.Windows" if="isWindows"&gt;
   &lt;exec  executable="cmd" dir="${your-target-dir}" &gt;
         &lt;arg line="/C command-to-run arg1 arg2 arg3" /&gt;
   &lt;/exec&gt;
&lt;/target&gt;