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Why does `svnversion -c` give me a range?

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I would like to include the svn revision number in my project's version info but I am confused by the results of svnversion. I want the version number of a tagged tree to always be the same (i.e. the last commit to the tag) but if the tag is to be rebuilt using a fresh checkout some time later svnversion seems to report the HEAD revision. So I looked at svnversion -c but this always seems to give me a range e.g. 2:1476, even directly after an update.

posted Dec 4, 2013 by Sanketi Garg

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If you are on windows you can use SubWCRev which is distributed with tortoiseSVN. It is designed to do what you want.

http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-subwcrev.html
commented Dec 4, 2013 by Dewang Chaudhary

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I think the -c option means: given all the item in this directory and recursive subdirectories, give the oldest and newest changed file. So, the oldest item in your working copy was last changed in revision 2, and the newest was last changed in revision 1476.

And svnversion without any flag does seem to give the latest revision to which the working copy was updated, not the last changed revision.

If you want the last changed revision, you could use:

svn info | sed -n 's/^Last Changed Rev: //p'
answer Dec 4, 2013 by Luv Kumar
Note that "bare" svnversion can give a range as well:

 % svnversion -c ~srv/conf
 105:143
 % svnversion ~srv/conf
 142:143

FWIW, all this should be documented in 'svnversion --help'. Is it clear there?
commented Dec 4, 2013 by anonymous
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