From: brabuhr@...
Date: 2009-10-04T21:48:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Get current working copy version in subversion/git

On 10/4/09, Anthony Metcalf <anthony.metcalf@anferny.me.uk> wrote:
> Ryan Davis wrote:
>> for subversion it is: `svnversion .`.chomp
>>
> Cool!
>
> I take it the '`'  mean "run this command and return the results as a
> string?

That may have been the problem you had with the other version, when I
copied and pasted from the email it came out with ':

>>> git_cmd     = 'git show --pretty=format:"%H|%ci" --quiet'

instead of `:

>>> git_cmd     = `git show --pretty=format:"%H|%ci" --quiet`