Getting the current Revision number on command line via TortoiseSVN

Question

Hello, I'm trying to write a batch file in which I need the HEAD revision of the project I am working on.

Is there a command to get this from the command line?

I am on a Windows XP Machine.

EDIT I ended up using a mix between Shambulator, mizipzor, and Stefan's answers. I ended up with this:

for /f "tokens=5" %%i in ('SubWCRev WorkingCopyPath^|find "Last committed at revision"') do set version=%%i 
echo %version%

Thanks for all your help guys

Added this answer to the list below as well.

Answer 1

TortoiseSVN doesn't give you any command-line interface as it is just a shell extension.

However, if you install the svn command-line tools, the following command will give you details of the SVN URL:

svn info [SVN-URL]

to extract the revision you could use this:

svn info [SVN-URL] | grep Revision | awk '{print $2}'

(that is assuming you've got some UNIX tools installed, e.g. cygwin)

Answer 2

I don't think there's any way of doing this directly from the command line using tortoisesvn. You can install the command line version from Collabnet and then use a command such as this:

c:\>svn ls -v svn://server/Source
67336 user1                Jul 05 13:00 ./
67336 user1                Jul 05 13:00 Source/

Answer 3

It's awkward without the text-processing capabilities of *nix, but this batch file does it:

@echo off
for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ('svn info -rHEAD svn://localhost^|find "Revision"') do @echo %%i

Substitute your svn repository for my svn://localhost.

svn info gets the repository info, then pipes it to find, which strips out everything except the line containing the revision number. The for command gives you the second "token" on that line (the first one is Revision:).

EDIT: As others have mentioned already, you'll need a command-line version of Subversion installed, and have svn.exe on your PATH.

Answer 4

Another possible approach. If you've got the repository checked out then the .svn\entries file has the revision number in the 4th line. i.e.

head -4 entries | tail -1

will give you the revision number.

probably not all that wise to use this as the format of the file could change - it really depends on if the script is just for personal use

Answer 5

The current answers list how to print the current revision on the central svn repository. If you're interested in the current local checked out revision I found this blog post that does something quite similar to what is done in Shambulator's answer:

@echo off
FOR /F "tokens=2 skip=4" %%G IN ('svn info --revision HEAD') DO ^
IF NOT DEFINED REVISION SET REVISION=%%G
echo %REVISION%

Answer 6

If you need that revision in a file, use SubWCRev which is installed with TortoiseSVN (or available separately).

Answer 7

I ended up using a mix between Shambulator, mizipzor, and Stefan's answers. I ended up with this:

for /f "tokens=5" %%i in ('SubWCRev WorkingCopyPath^|find "Last committed at revision"') do set version=%%i  
echo %version% 

Thanks for all your help guys