From: Jean-Michel <jesnault@...>
Date: 2009-10-06T00:10:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Get current working copy version in subversion/git

On Oct 4, 5:48 am, brab...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 10/4/09, Anthony Metcalf <anthony.metc...@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`


There is no need for IO.popen:

commit_id, commit_date = `git show --pretty=format:"%H|%ci" --
quiet`.split('|')

Jean-Michel