svnversion

October 16 2008 : posted under programming svn

I just discovered a nifty little utility

Often working copies are only partially updated, this command gives a very quick command-line summary of the state of the working copy.

It’s not as rich an output as kdesvn which will colour code all the updateable files, but its a standard part of svn so should always be available.

Name

svnversion — Summarize the local revision(s) of a working copy.

Synopsis

svnversion [OPTIONS] WC_PATH [TRAIL_URL]

Description

svnversion is a program for summarizing the revision mixture of a working copy. The resultant revision number, or revision range, is written to standard output.

TRAIL_URL, if present, is the trailing portion of the URL used to determine if WC_PATH itself is switched (detection of switches within WC_PATH does not rely on TRAIL_URL).

Examples

If the working copy is all at the same revision (for example, immediately after an update), then that revision is printed out:

$ svnversion .
4168

For a mixed-revision working copy, the range of revisions present is printed:

$ svnversion .
4123:4168