Get the current SVN revision number in from Ant

Another minor Problem I struggled with the last couple times I was updating one of my build scripts was resolving the current SVN revision number from within ant. Google points out a few solutions, but most of them require optional SVN tasks or do an exec. Someone (sorry, I would put a link if I could remember) came up with the simple solution of using the stored SVN information from the filesystem. So:

    <loadfile property="svn.revision" srcFile="./.svn/entries">
        <filterchain>
        <headfilter lines="1" skip="3"/>
        <deletecharacters chars="\n"/>
        </filterchain>
   </loadfile>

loads the current revision number into a property called svn.revision. I use this with svn 1.4 and 1.5 repositories and it works just fine.

Tags: ant, svn

2 Comments to Get the current SVN revision number in from Ant

1. 

   great !
   I was about to try SVNAnt just to get this revision number but your simple solution is perfect in my case
emerix on March 28th, 2010
2. 

   Ferrari castle play go
pletcherfte on May 23rd, 2012

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