app/django/utils/version.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:50:56 +0000
changeset 590 37735d97b541
parent 54 03e267d67478
child 1279 f85ac8856dca
permissions -rw-r--r--
Created a seperate module for editSelf things This improves the coherency in the user module, while at the same time making it easier to set proper access control for the editSelf related pages. Patch by: Sverre Rabbelier

import django
import os.path
import re

def get_svn_revision(path=None):
    """
    Returns the SVN revision in the form SVN-XXXX,
    where XXXX is the revision number.

    Returns SVN-unknown if anything goes wrong, such as an unexpected
    format of internal SVN files.

    If path is provided, it should be a directory whose SVN info you want to
    inspect. If it's not provided, this will use the root django/ package
    directory.
    """
    rev = None
    if path is None:
        path = django.__path__[0]
    entries_path = '%s/.svn/entries' % path

    if os.path.exists(entries_path):
        entries = open(entries_path, 'r').read()
        # Versions >= 7 of the entries file are flat text.  The first line is
        # the version number. The next set of digits after 'dir' is the revision.
        if re.match('(\d+)', entries):
            rev_match = re.search('\d+\s+dir\s+(\d+)', entries)
            if rev_match:
                rev = rev_match.groups()[0]
        # Older XML versions of the file specify revision as an attribute of
        # the first entries node.
        else:
            from xml.dom import minidom
            dom = minidom.parse(entries_path)
            rev = dom.getElementsByTagName('entry')[0].getAttribute('revision')

    if rev:
        return u'SVN-%s' % rev
    return u'SVN-unknown'