On Nov 20, 2005, at 6:04 PM, William A. Carrel wrote: > Perhaps, but that feels pretty ugly. It's going to clutter up every > changeset with non-relevant changed lines, plus open questions like: > do you iterate the file only for commits to the trunk or also for > commits on branches/tags which will iterate the repository revision > number? > > If the existing typo_version.rb == 'HEAD' and there is a .svn > directory at the typo root then try to get the version with > svnversion (or by parsing .svn/entries on the typo root, it's some > pretty cut and dry XML). If it's a real point-release version then > put that in typo_version.rb instead of 'HEAD'. > > All of these answers feel like solutions in search of a problem. > Developers and users who are running HEAD rather than a point release > should be prepared to run things like "svnversion /opt/my/typo" when > submitting problem reports. Adding that to the "how to report an > issue" page seems like a good thing to do anyway.
You're probably right. I've seen a lot of bug report from "subversion from about a month ago," and I'd like to have a better way to track it. Scott
