Subversion: Determine the highest revision number in the working copy

This seems to do the trick when run in a terminal from the top level of the working copy:

svn info -R  | grep Revision | sed "s/Revision: //g" | sort -n | tail -1

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Or, you could just use the svnversion command.

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Anonymous wrote 5 years 25 weeks ago

I prefer awk ‘{print $2}’

I prefer awk ‘{print $2}’ instead of replacing with sed- 2 cuts the second field, alter as needed.

 
andy wrote 5 years 25 weeks ago

Thanks for the tip. What I

Thanks for the tip. What I don’t know about sed and awk could fill the Grand Canyon - I was pleased to have figured out enough sed to do that replacement at all!

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