How to access the current Subversion build number?

Question

How can you automatically import the latest build/revision number in subversion?

The goal would be to have that number visible on your webpage footer like SO does.

Answer 1

svn info 

or

svn info --xml 

Then look at the result. For xml, parse /info/entry/@revision for the revision of the repository (151 in this example) or /info/entry/commit/@revision for the revision of the last commit against this path (133, useful when working with tags):

http://myserver/svn/stumde/cmdtools

http://myserver/svn/stumde
a148ce7d-da11-c240-b47f-6810ff02934c


mstum
2008-07-12T17:09:08.315246Z

I wrote a tool (cmdnetsvnrev, source code included) for myself which replaces the Revision in my AssemblyInfo.cs files. It's limited to that purpose though, but generally svn info and then processing is the way to go.