[Python-Dev] Expose Subversion revision number to Python (original) (raw)

Armin Rigo arigo at tunes.org
Fri Dec 16 17:09:17 CET 2005

Hi Phillip,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:51:33AM -0500, Phillip J. Eby wrote:

svn info -R|grep '^Last Changed Rev'|sort -nr|head -1|cut -f 4 -d" "

To get the highest-numbered revision. However, both this approach and yours will not deal with Subversion messages in non-English locales.

The 'py' lib works around this problem by running "LC_ALL=C svn info".

A bientot,

Armin

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