[Dev-luatex] svn revision ids

[Taco Hoekwater]

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> One idea (though I have no idea if it's doable or not): maybe it's
> possible to create before-commit or after-commit hook that
> automatically changes some configuration file in repository after
> every commit and writes commit number to that file. Consequently the
> build should not depend on the existence of local svn repository.

I fear that there are two problems with that approach:

1. it meeds server-side scripting
2. each commit then has to be followed by an explicit svn co
    to fetch the newly updated file, otherwise the client does not
    know it has changed.

Best wishes,
Taco