Question

hi I’m new to svn and I want to write a windows command line script that checks if the working version of a file is the same as the head and if it is run a exe? If it isn’t the same as the working version I want to exit the script without running the executable.

Help please!

Answer 1

I know enough about Windows cmd batch processing language to know that doing things like this may be next to impossible. At least Powershell is a complete language.

I can tell you one thing: You can look at svn status --show-updates file to see if file is up to date:

File is up to date:

C> svn status --show-updates file
Status against revision:     182332

File isn’t up to date:

C> svn st -u file
        *            file
Status against revision:     182332

If you can somehow use the Windows command batch language to parse the output of that command, you could check whether file is the latest version or not.