[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Read "Last Changed Rev" field as version info.

Ramiro Polla ramiro.polla
Sat Jan 16 19:00:08 CET 2010


On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Zuxy Meng <zuxy.meng at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/16 Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>:
>> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:41:31PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>> Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:
>>> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:53:27PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>>> >> Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla at gmail.com> writes:
>>> >> > Read "Last Changed Rev" field instead of "Revision" field to avoid
>>> >> > being affected by changes in other directories (such as branches).
>>> >> > This will be more useful for getting swscale revision that isn't
>>> >> > affected by other commits to mplayer.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I tested on subversion 1.3 for the old .svn/entries format, but I left
>>> >> > out the new .svn/entries format because I'm not that skilled with sed
>>> >> > and I don't know how reliable it would be to get the nth line after
>>> >> > "dir".
>>> >>
>>> >> Why do we look for the revision in so many ways? ?Does "svn info"
>>> >> sometimes fail?
>>> >
>>> > When it is not installed.
>>> > Or the checkout was done from a different machine with a newer SVN version
>>> > (yes, unfortunately there are development systems around with such outdated
>>> > software).
>>> > Probably more cases if you think about it hard enough :-)
>>>
>>> Well, if people feel the need, and it's only limited to a couple of
>>> lines...
>>
>> Btw. I just remembered one of the bigger cases of "svn not installed", any
>> Windows or OSX user using a SVN GUI (those usually build on libsvn, not the svn
>> binary, so the later one is not installed, and for Windows such a Gui basically
>> is the only way to get something that isn't a pain to update without using cygwin).
>
> Why? I always use svn in the command line under Windows and it's quite
> convenient.

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