[LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

Robinson Tryon bishop.robinson at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 15:41:44 CEST 2007


On 10/5/07, Ward Vandewege <ward at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 12:30:06AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> > > etc.) or at least ask some svn experts whether there is an easier and
> > > cleaner way to include a revision number?
> >
> > Yeah, that would surely be great. Do you know any method or whom to ask?
> > I browsed the svn code and manuals but didn't find anything better
> > than $Rev$.
>
> Can't we do this with a commit hook that would update the version number
> (which is in 1 place only) automatically to the SVN revision number?

I was going to suggest that the buildscript pull the current revision
# out of SVN, but the idea of a commit hook sounds like it could be
cleaner.  Would the hook apply whenever any file is committed to the
repository, or just to files in the superiotool directory?




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