Get svn revision without an appropriate svn binary installed

Posted by Sridhar Ratnakumar on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Sridhar Ratnakumar
Published on 2010-03-25T22:35:11Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 3:33 UTC
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For some reason, we can't update the SVN in some build machines. Installed svn version is 1.3.x. But Hudson slave used 1.6 to create a checkout. This means we can't run "svn info" on those checkouts:

$ svnversion 
subversion/libsvn_wc/questions.c:110: (apr_err=155021)
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client
$ svn info
subversion/libsvn_wc/questions.c:110: (apr_err=155021)
svn: This client is too old to work with working copy '.'; please get a newer Subversion client
$

My question, is there a way to access the revision number without having to invoking the svn binary? You know, like trying to look into the .svn/ directory? Assume that the checkout is using latest svn version (1.6).

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