Question

I can successfully execute SubWCRev.exe on Windows. It does show revision number. But typing set under dos command doesn’t list any $WCREV$ var. So where is it stored ?

Answer 1

From the SubWCRev.exe help output, this is the expected command line:

Usage: SubWCRev WorkingCopyPath [SrcVersionFile DstVersionFile] [-nmdf]

and this is what it does with the SrcVersionFile and DstVersionFile arguments if you give them:

SubWCRev reads the Subversion status
of all files in a working copy
excluding externals. If SrcVersionFile
is specified, it is scanned for
special placeholders of the form
“$WCxxx$”. SrcVersionFile is then
copied to DstVersionFile but the
placeholders are replaced with
information about the working copy as
follows:

$WCREV$         Highest committed revision number
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