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Armen Nazarian
Armen Nazarian

Reputation: 23

Stick a version number to SVN revision number

when its time to deploy a project to a customer or whatever, is there a way of putting the version of the software to that specific svn Revision History number? for instance revision 456 is the softwares Version 1.2.0.1 ?

Thx.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1033

Answers (1)

xorsyst
xorsyst

Reputation: 8237

This is traditionally done by using tags, basically a copy of the code as it was at revision number 456 in a part of the repository that people don't edit by convention. See http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/ch04s06.html for more detail

This works, but it's not as pretty as many other source control systems, where tags are a first-level construct. An alternative is simple to have a file somewhere, possibly in the repository or possibly separate, where you manually record the revision numbers for each release.

You should also look at branches, which are a way to allow you (amongst other things) to make updates to old versions of the software while also developing new versions.

Upvotes: 2

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