sys/conf/newvers.sh vs. subversion-1.7

[Craig Rodrigues]

Hi,

Can you come up with a patch which invoke "svn info ." (if the svn
binary exists)?
This is slightly faster than svnversion.

If "svn info ." doesn't error out, you can assume that the directory
is under SVN control.

--
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at crodrigues.org

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:12 PM, David Wolfskill <david at catwhisker.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 04:36:05PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> ....
>> I'm not sure what the best fix is.  One could possibly always run svnversion
>> if it exists?
>
> Sure -- and use the result as long as the exit status is 0.  (It's
> certainly possible that svnversion exists, but the sources in question
> aren't in a subversion working copy, after all.)
>
> I could cobble up a patch to do that, if y'all like....
>
> Alternatively, see the more extended comments I made to Jilles' comments
> (to the PR) of a similar nature;
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161835>.  Summary: I believe
> that newvers.sh ought to be intrinsically SCM-agnostic.
>
> Peace,
> david
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Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at crodrigues.org