Insert Subversion revision number in Xcode

Question

I would like to insert the current Subversion revision number (as reported by svnversion) into my Xcode project. I managed to insert the revision number into th

Answer 1

I found this page when trying to do a similar thing for my iPhone app and thought it might be helpful to share the code I decided on. I was trying to have a base version number set in my Target Info (for example 0.9.5) but then append my SVN revision number at the end of it. I needed this stored in CFBundleVersion so that AdHoc users would be able to update via iTunes even if I didn't remember to rev the version number in my Target Info pane. That's why I couldn't use the "revision.h" method which otherwise worked beautifully. Here's the final code I settled on which I've placed as a Run Script phase just after the "Copy Bundle Resources" build phase:

BASEVERNUM=`/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleVersion" "${INFOPLIST_FILE}" | sed 's/,/, /g'`
REV=`svnversion -n`
SVNDATE=`LC_ALL=C svn info | awk '/^Last Changed Date:/ {print $4,$5}'`
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :CFBundleVersion $BASEVERNUM.$REV" "${TARGET_BUILD_DIR}"/${INFOPLIST_PATH}
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Set :BuildDateString $SVNDATE" "${TARGET_BUILD_DIR}"/${INFOPLIST_PATH}

It should append the results of svnversion to the end of whatever is set in the base Info.plist as the version. This way you can have something like 0.9.5 in your info plist and still have the .189 revision number appended at the end, giving a final version number of 0.9.5.189

Hope this helps someone else!