[BRLTTY] A bug in revision 3008-09 of version 3.8dev?

Jason White jasonw at ariel.its.unimelb.edu.au
Tue May 1 01:02:49 EDT 2007


On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:50:38PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
 
> Does svn have the ability to expand keywords like CVS does?  If so then 
> the version string could be built automatically. [looking at the svn 
> doc] ... no it appears that the keyword expansion will substitute the 
> version that given file was modified and not the global revision.

>From the discussion in Version Control with Subversion, it certainly appears
that way.

One solution might be to create an automatically maintained Changelog file
with a $Revision$ keyword in it, which would then be changed on eah commit.



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