how to use the tortoisesvn commends in vs2008

Question

I'm using TortoiseSVN and Visual Studio 2008. Is there any way to update my project's subversion with svn's version in every build?

For example, 1.0.0.[svn's version] -> 1.0.0.12

Answer 1

If you have nant scripts which run the builds, you can do something like this.

The build script will run this line:

svn log c:\yourWorkingDirectory --xml --limit 1

Then it will look at the version # generated in a log file such as

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<log>
<logentry
   revision="12">
<author>someone</author>
<date>2010-08-01T00:00:00</date>
<msg>Last message</msg>
</logentry>
</log>

Here is an example nant script for this:

 <exec
   program="svn.exe"
   commandline='log "${workingCopyDirectory}" --xml --limit 1'
   output="${workingCopyDirectory}\_revision.xml"
   failonerror="false"/>
 <xmlpeek
   file="${workingCopyDirectory}\_revision.xml"
   xpath="/log/logentry/@revision"
   property="svn.revision"
   failonerror="false"/>
 <echo message="Using Subversion revision number: ${svn.revision}"/>

Then update assembly info using that value before using MsBuild

Answer 2

TortoiseSVN ships with a tool named SubWCRev. You can use that tool to have it replace keywords in your file(s).