How do I get svn revision information using command line on Windows

Question

I'm trying to get the revision information for the head using this command line

svn info https://myserver/branches/Code_Improvements -rHEAD | find "Revision"

However, this returns Revision : 1234

Since I'm using the result of the svn info command to set a variable in my batch file, is there a way I can get just the number 1234, instead of response Revision : 1234.

possible duplicate of [Getting the last revision number in SVN?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/579196/getting-the-last-revision-number-in-svn) — bahrep, Aug 20 '15 at 10:25

bahrep · Answer 1 · 2018-04-26T10:24:14.660

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Update Subversion client to 1.9 and use new --show-item option:
```
svn info --show-item=revision URL-to-repository.
```
As an alternative, you can get the XMLed output of svn info using --xml option and use PowerShell to get the revision number. Here is a simple example:
```
[xml]$revnum = svn info <REPOSITORY-URL> --xml -r HEAD
$latestrevnum = $revnum.info.entry.revision
$latestrevnum
```

edited Apr 26 '18 at 10:24

answered Aug 20 '15 at 10:13

bahrep

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Interesting solution :) but is there a complete command-lines solution option to set to variable – this-Me Aug 20 '15 at 10:21
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It doesn't recognise the line [xml]$revnum, probably PowerShell dependency ? – this-Me Aug 20 '15 at 10:25
@this-Me make sure that you use up-to-date PowerShell version. I guess that [xml] accelerator was not included in older PowerShell versions. – bahrep Aug 20 '15 at 10:28
I have to use this on a build PC not sure I can add this. – this-Me Aug 20 '15 at 10:30
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`svn info --show-item=revision URL-to-repository` should probably be the correct answer by now. – Alex Sanséau Apr 26 '18 at 10:23
@AlexSanséau thank you! I've just updated the answer. :) – bahrep Apr 26 '18 at 10:24

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 26 '18 at 10:50

For the sake of completeness, if you need to get svn revision and then set it into a variable in a batch file (Windows):

FOR /f "delims=" %%R in ('svn info --show-item=revision URL-to-repository') do @set svnRevision=%%R
echo SVN revision: %svnRevision%

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 24 '15 at 11:15

I used this in order to get revision information in my case

for /f "delims=: tokens=1,2" %%a in ('svn info %SVN_REPO_URL%') do (
  if "%%a"=="Revision" (
    set /a RELEASE_REVISION=%%b
  )
)

Thanks @bahrep for an alternate solution. But the above snippet is what I used to get the version information in a variable.

How do I get svn revision information using command line on Windows

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