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Asked: 2026-06-13T05:48:30+00:00

I am wanting to display in my application current commit number. I use SVN

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I am wanting to display in my application current commit number. I use SVN and my code is C#.

I wonder if I can update automatically a text file WITHIN REPOSITORY so it will contain a commit number, eg, displaying it to user.

Currently I am thinking of making a post-commit hook (a shell script that receives several environment variables containing commit info) and “echo” the commit number into that text file. Is it a valid thing to do, to interfere with text files from repository on server side?

Any other means to store build number? I know SVN can modify source codes for some keywords, but then I need to commit these files to get modified. I want to be able to get that revision number updated ALWAYS, not when I commit a particular file.

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  1. Editorial Team
    1. You haven’t to have additional file with global revision number in repository, because repository already have this meta-information
    2. You must not (and can’t really) modify repository in post-commit hook
    3. You can get RevID on build-stage only (“build” can be plain export from repo, compile etc…) and write in some unversioned source

    If you c#-code, you use Windows, yes?! In this case, except svn info, which output you must pre-parse for usage, you can consider using SubWCRev (part of TortoiseSVN), which transform versioned template file with SubWCRev-keywords into unversioned data file with keywords replaced by actual data from repository-info

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