sys/conf/newvers.sh vs. subversion-1.7

[Craig Rodrigues]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 22:42, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried following:
>>
>> (1)   Run svnversion in non-svn directory:
>>
>>    return status == 0
>
> Return status isn't everything. :)
>
>>    prints out "exported"
>
> In my case (1.7) it says "Unversioned directory"
>
> But my point (which perhaps I should have made more explicit) is that
> given the fact that svnversion handles non-svn directories gracefully
> it's faster (simpler, etc.) to just run foo=`svnversion` and then make
> sure that $foo is rational than it is to run 2 commands.
>
> Doug


Hi,

What logic can we use to make sure svnversion returns a rational value?

It looks like the output of svnversion for non-svn directories is
inconsistent between versions of Subversion.

Running a command seems like a better approach than looking for ".svn"
directories.

-- 
Craig Rodrigues
rodrigc at crodrigues.org