How can you automatically import the latest build/revision number in subversion?
The goal would be to have that number visible on your webpage footer like SO does.
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Then look at the result. For xml, parse /info/entry/@revision for the revision of the repository (151 in this example) or /info/entry/commit/@revision for the revision of the last commit against this path (133, useful when working with tags):
I wrote a tool (cmdnetsvnrev, source code included) for myself which replaces the Revision in my AssemblyInfo.cs files. It’s limited to that purpose though, but generally svn info and then processing is the way to go.