Dear subversion users,
I am trying to automatically get the actual revision number of my subversion repository into a text file inside the subversion project. More precisely, I am using subversion to keep track of the changes I do to the code of several R packages. These packages contain a file named "DESCRIPTION" containig (amongst other) the following line: Version: 0.5.0.1 When I "build" these packages into *tar.gz R packages (by running R CMD build ... ) this version number is automatically used as the number for that R package and can be accessed easily from within R by running sessionInfo() after loading this package. Now I would like to have the last digit (1 in this case) to resemble my subversion revision number to get a direct reference from within R to the version of the code that was used to compile the package. I did the following: 1. run the following in the folder where DESCRIPTION is: svn propset svn:keywords "LastChangedRevision" DESCRIPTION 2. And changed the relevant line in DESCRIPTION to: Version: 0.5.0.$LastChangedRevision$ This works partially but changes the line in DESCRIPTION to (for example): Version: 0.5.0.$LastChangedRevision: 28 $ I need, however: Version: 0.5.0.28 Is there any way to achieve this? In case you have any solution, try to post it understandable to a SVN-newbi :-). Thanks for your help! Jannis
