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

if you're using svnant, you can use wcVersion, which duplicates svnveresion and returns digestible values. see: http://subclipse.tigris.org/svnant/svn.html#wcVersion