How to get svn version number from checkout for use in dsl

Question

I created a pipeline job and would like to get the svn version number to enable further downstream processing in a call to a shell script. I am using a pipeline script simi

Answer 1

I ended up invoking a shell to get the svn revision number as follows

def svnVersionNumber = sh(
    script: "svn info --show-item last-changed-revision $url",
    returnStdout: true
)

This was the only way I could get it to work correctly.