Editorial note: This entry describes at length the process I went through to achieve the “perfect” script for determining and inserting the Subversion revision number into my builds. If you’d rather skip the details and jump to the copy/pasteable script, click here. Around the time I first tried Subversion, I noticed an interesting mailing list […]

Not too long ago I was convinced to switch to Subversion for one of my most active projects. Unlike some folks, I didn’t run to Subversion with CVS blood on my fingers, but it was nonetheless a CVS nuisance that finally pushed me over the edge. I don’t know what happened to CVS in Tiger, […]