What's an easy way to obtain the current svn revision in a c++ visual studio application

Question

Is there any easy way to access the SVN repository revision number and store it in a c++ string in a c++ visual studio application?

Thanks for your help in advance!

Answer 1

If you have tortoise SVN you can use SubWCRev.exe

Create a file called:

RevisionInfo.tmpl

int SvnRevision = $WCREV$;

Then execute this command:

SubWCRev.exe . RevisionInfo.tmpl RevisionInfo.cpp

It will create a file ReivisonInfo.cpp with your revision number as follows:

int SvnRevision = 5000;

From your other files just do something like:

extern int SvnRevision; to access the global variable from within that file.

You could also use SvnRev