Re: [LinuxBIOS] [PATCH] superiotool: Make --version actually work correctly

[Ulf Jordan]

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> What about pulling the version directly out of SVN at build time?  Like this:
>
> svn info | sed -n 's/.*Revision: ([0-9]*)/\1/ p'
>
> As long as the Makefile lives at the top level of the project, this
> value should always reflect the latest commit in the current checkout.

That looks like a good solution.

I read a bit in the svn book, and they recommend using svnversion for 
getting a "global" revision number for a set of files. However, that tool 
seems to have a bit more varying output, reflecting local changes and 
mixed revsion numbers etc.

/ulf