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Subject: Re: Get Rev Number from SVN to Display in Web App
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 14:13:21 +0300
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On 8.5.2012 13:15, Jan Burse wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> Is there a simple Ant task to retrieve the revision
> number of my code from a SVN repository, and then
> store it in some location, so that later my web
> application can show it?
> 
> Best Regards

Just put the "$Revision: $" into your source code, and if it is a jsp
page, add echo "<!-- last build at `date` -->" >>the.jsp so it changes.
You may play with tail so that you just replace the last line in the
file with that time stamp. And have some Java utility to parse the
revision number from the string "$Revision: 2020$"

  s.split(":")[1].replace('$',' ').trim();

So there. The page always will have the latest revision from version
control in it.

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