Do not rely on dicts.merge to change target
Also make dicts.merge actually not touch target. This is much cleaner
than modifying in place, especially since we assign the result of the
dicts.merge call to target most of the time anyway.
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 not os.environ['SERVER_SOFTWARE'].startswith('Dev'):
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'