[mythtv] SVN version info

[Daniel Kristjansson]

On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 19:54 +0000, Allan Stirling wrote:
> Currently, there is no global SVN version number available. This means that it 
> can be quite difficult for someone running SVN to be able to discover the 
> version number he is actually running.
> 1. Do without. If someone is compiling for SVN, they should KNOW what revision 
> 2. Checkin scripts. These would be run from the client side on a checkin. 
> 3. Autogenerate a version singleton as part of the configure script.
I'm not too up on SVN, but CVS has hooks that let you run any script on
any SVN command on the server. In the past I've used this functionality
to update a website, check if the code still compiles after a commit,
etc.

-- Daniel