From: Alexey Verkhovsky <alex@...>
Date: 2007-02-15T15:19:09+09:00
Subject: Re: RSCM and subversion

Craig Beck wrote:
> Anyone know how to get the svn revision number of a locally 
> checked-out working copy via rscm?
>
> I've hacked about a bit in irb to see how things work (the docs are a 
> little thin) but this one thing has eluded me. It can tell me if the 
> WC is not the current version -- but only the current version AFAIK 
> which is different from (a) the actual checked-out revision and (b) is 
> the current local revision up-to-date (which does not mean == to the 
> HEAD revision)
>
> Am I just blind, or does rscm lack the ability to tell me what the 
> revision number is a la `svn info`? (and yes, I can fall back to 
> parsing the output of `svn info`
We have just solved this problem, and you can probably adopt some code 
from here: 
http://rubyforge.org/viewvc/trunk/app/models/subversion.rb?revision=103&root=cruisecontrolrb&view=markup
Specifically, look for Subversion#latest_revision method.

Best regards,
Alex Verkhovsky