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

This is ridiculous but svn info or svnversion wont take into consideration subdirectories; it's a feature called working 'Mixed Revisions' - I call it torture. I just needed to find the latest 'revision' of the live codebase and the hacked way below worked for me - it might take a while to run:

repo_root# find ./ | xargs -l svn info  | grep 'Revision: ' | sort
...
Revision: 86
Revision: 86
Revision: 89
Revision: 90
root@fairware:/home/stage_vancity#