[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Read "Last Changed Rev" field as version info.

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:53:27PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Ramiro Polla <ramiro.polla at gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Read "Last Changed Rev" field instead of "Revision" field to avoid
>> > being affected by changes in other directories (such as branches).
>> > This will be more useful for getting swscale revision that isn't
>> > affected by other commits to mplayer.
>> >
>> > I tested on subversion 1.3 for the old .svn/entries format, but I left
>> > out the new .svn/entries format because I'm not that skilled with sed
>> > and I don't know how reliable it would be to get the nth line after
>> > "dir".
>> 
>> Why do we look for the revision in so many ways?  Does "svn info"
>> sometimes fail?
>
> When it is not installed.
> Or the checkout was done from a different machine with a newer SVN version
> (yes, unfortunately there are development systems around with such outdated
> software).
> Probably more cases if you think about it hard enough :-)

Well, if people feel the need, and it's only limited to a couple of
lines...

Patch is OK.

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