app/django/utils/version.py
author Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:19:37 +0000
changeset 586 a4a36b06a870
parent 54 03e267d67478
child 1279 f85ac8856dca
permissions -rw-r--r--
Make the sidebar dynamic depending on the user's rights This is done by doing the usual access checks that are also called when the user actually visits the page.

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'