Current Subversion revision command

Question

Is there a Subversion command to show the current revision number?

After svn checkout I want to start a script and need the revision number in a variable.

Answer 1

Just used @badcat's answer in a modified version, using subprocess.check_output():

import subprocess
revision = subprocess.check_output("svn info | awk '/^Revision:/ {print $2}'", shell=True).strip()

I believe you can also, install and use pysvn if you want to use python to interface with svn.

Answer 2

Otherwise for old version, if '--show-item' is not recognize, you can use the following command :

svn log -r HEAD | grep -o -E "^r[0-9]{1,}" | sed 's/r//g'

Hope it helps.

Answer 3

REV=svn info svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/retroshare/code/trunk | grep 'Revision:' | cut -d\ -f2

Answer 4

Newer versions of svn support the --show-item argument:

svn info --show-item revision

For the revision number of your local working copy, use:

svn info --show-item last-changed-revision

You can use os.system() to execute a command line like this:

svn info | grep "Revision" | awk '{print $2}'

I do that in my nightly build scripts.

Also on some platforms there is a svnversion command, but I think I had a reason not to use it. Ahh, right. You can't get the revision number from a remote repository to compare it to the local one using svnversion.