Re: [Enigma-devel] Re: SVN revision number

[Daniel Heck]

Ronald Lamprecht wrote:

> svnversion is the right tool.
>
> But it does not really help, as we have a classical "hen and egg" problem:
>
> You need to commit your changes and you need to update to get correct 
> svnversion output. Now you need to start make again to generate the 
> source which results in a modified source which need to be commited,...
> Furtheron this modified piece of source would be a steady source of
> merge errors.
>

Why would you want to commit the file containing the version number 
anyway? That is clearly the wrong approach, for all the reasons you 
list.  I would simply run svnversion every single time make is invoked 
and link the resulting version string into the program.

- Daniel