Current Subversion revision command

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Is there a Subversion command to show the current revision number   After svn checkout I want to start a script and need the revision number in a variable   It would be great if there is a command like svn info get revision number

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REV svn info svn   svn code sf net p retroshare code trunk   grep  Revision     cut -d   -f2

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svn info  I believe  is what you want   If you just wanted the revision  maybe you could do something like   svn info   grep  Revision

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Use something like the following  taking advantage of the XML output of subversion     parse rev from popen  svn info --xml  dom   xml dom minidom parse os popen  svn info --xml    entry   dom getElementsByTagName  entry   0  revision   entry getAttribute  revision     Note also that  depending on what you need this for  the  lt commit revision     gt  entry may be more what you re looking for   That gives the  Last Changed Rev   which won t change until the code in the current tree actually changes  as opposed to  Revision   what the above gives  which will change any time anything in the repository changes  even branches  and you do an  svn up   which is not the same thing  nor often as useful

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Newer versions of svn support the --show-item argument   svn info --show-item revision   For the revision number of your local working copy  use   svn info --show-item last-changed-revision   You can use os system   to execute a command line like this   svn info   grep  Revision    awk   print  2     I do that in my nightly build scripts   Also on some platforms there is a svnversion command  but I think I had a reason not to use it  Ahh  right  You can t get the revision number from a remote repository to compare it to the local one using svnversion

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I think I have to do svn info and then retrieve the number with a string manipulation from  Revision  xxxxxx  It would be just nice  if there were a command that returns just the number

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Just used  badcat s answer in a modified version  using subprocess check output     import subprocess revision   subprocess check output  svn info   awk    Revision    print  2     shell True  strip     I believe you can also  install and use pysvn if you want to use python to interface with svn

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First of all svn status has the revision number  you can read it from there  Also  each file that you store in SVN can store the revision number in itself -- add the  Rev  keyword to your file and run propset  svn propset svn keywords  Revision  file Finally  the revision number is also in  svn entries file  fourth line   Now each time you checkout that file  it will have the revision in itself

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Nobody mention for Windows world SubWCRev  which  properly used  can substitute needed data into the needed places automagically  if script call SubWCRev in form SubWCRev WC PATH TPL-FILE READY-FILE  Sample of my post-commit hook  part of   SubWCRev exe CustomLocations Builder tpl  z  Builder bat     call z  Builder bat   where my Builder tpl is  svn exe export trunk z  trunk WCDATE  Y m d -r WCREV    as result  I have every time bat-file with variable part - name of dir - which corresponds to the metadata of Working Copy

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There is also a more convenient  for some  svnversion command   Output might be a single revision number or something like this  from -h      4123 4168     mixed revision working copy   4168M         modified working copy   4123S         switched working copy   4123 4168MS   mixed revision  modified  switched working copy   I use this python code snippet to extract revision information   import re import subprocess  p   subprocess Popen   svnversion    stdout   subprocess PIPE       stderr   subprocess PIPE  p wait   m   re match r    d M S      d   M  S    p stdout read    rev   int m group 2   if m group 3      M       rev    1

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Otherwise for old version  if  --show-item  is not recognize  you can use the following command    svn log -r HEAD   grep -o -E   r 0-9  1      sed  s r  g    Hope it helps

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