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From: Donkey Hottie <donkey@fredriksson.dy.fi>
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Subject: Re: Get Rev Number from SVN to Display in Web App
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 15:09:36 +0300
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On 8.5.2012 14:20, Jan Burse wrote:
> Donkey Hottie schrieb:
>> Just put the "$Revision: $" into your source code
> 
> Hi, thanks, but how do I get the revision from SVN?
> Are there some SVN specific Ant tasks around, something
> along get property? By revision I mean the transaction
> number of SVN, not something I know and that I can put
> manually in some file.
> 
> Bye

If you put that string to a file, svn will replace it with the revision
number when the file is committed to svn.

The file must be enabled to get this using command

  svn propset svn:keywords "Revision" filename

http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2008/09/30/subversion-svn-keywords-property.html

The next "svn commit" will update the file with revision number.