How do you determine the latest SVN revision number rooted in a directory?

Question

I would like to start tagging my deployed binaries with the latest SVN revision number.

However, because SVN is file-based and not directory/project-based, I need to

Answer 1

If you just want the revision number of the latest change that was committed, and are using Windows without grep/awk/xargs, here is the bare-bones command to run (command line):

X:\trunk>svn info -r COMMITTED | for /F "tokens=2" %r in ('findstr /R "^Revision"') DO @echo %r
67000

svn info -r COMMITTED will give you the latest committed change to the directory you are currently in:

X:\Trunk>svn info -r COMMITTED
Path: trunk
URL: https://svn.example.com/svn/myproject/trunk
Repository Root: https://svn.example.com/svn/
Repository UUID: d2a7a951-c712-0410-832a-9abccabd3052
Revision: 67400
Node Kind: directory
Last Changed Author: example
Last Changed Rev: 67400
Last Changed Date: 2008-09-11 18:25:27 +1000 (Thu, 11 Sep 2008)

The for loop runs findstr to locate the Revision portion of the output from svn info. The output from this will be (you won't see this):

Revision: 67000

Which then splits the tokens, and returns the 2nd, to be echoed out:

67000