[Svnmerge] -V and --version options don't display a revision number

Raman Gupta rocketraman at fastmail.fm
Mon Jan 7 15:51:32 PST 2008


Margo K wrote:
> When I run svnmerge.py with either of these options, I get the following 
> 
> svnmerge r<unknown>
>   modified: <unknown>
> 
> Copyright (C) 2004,2005 Awarix Inc.
> Copyright (C) 2005, Giovanni Bajo
> 
> Any one know why this is happening? I THINK I'm using the latest version,
> but I can't be sure...

Most likely because your copy was pulled directly from the subversion
repository via http. The output of -V comes from svn keyword
expansion, so try it on a copy that has been obtained from svn
checkout instead:

svn co \
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svnmerge

Cheers,
Raman




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