SVN 'Version' equivalent

[zz74b]

Hi

I'm trying to integrate Plastic SCM where originally I have used SVN. Within Visual Studio 2010 I use the MSBuildCommunityTasks to get the SVN Version of a directory to create the assembly version info. How can I go about doing the equivalent with Plastic?

Within the csproj file I have the following (using SVN)

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\MSBuildCommunityTasks\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets')" />
 <PropertyGroup>
   <Major>1</Major>
   <Minor>0</Minor>
   <Build>$(BUILD_NUMBER)</Build>
   <Revision>0</Revision>
 </PropertyGroup>
 <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
   <SvnInfo RepositoryPath="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)" ToolPath="C:\Program Files\SVN\bin">
     <Output TaskParameter="LastChangedRevision" PropertyName="Revision" />
   </SvnInfo>
   <Message Text="Version: $(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)" />
   <AssemblyInfo CodeLanguage="CS" OutputFile="Properties\AssemblyVersionInfo.cs" AssemblyVersion="$(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)" AssemblyFileVersion="$(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)" Condition="$(Revision) != 0" />
 </Target>

Thanks.

[psantosl]

Right now the best way will be running (and parsing, not much to do) a cm status command.

I'm pretty sure we solved something very similar on the forum for NAnt, I'll take a look and let you know.

[zz74b]

Hi,

Ok this will be easy enough to write a small wrapper application round the cm command.

Is there some -xml option we can add to all the commands to output in an xml format rather than plain text? - this would help with parsing and future upgradability in output.

Cheers

[psantosl]

Nice suggestion!

Right now, here's the output of a cm status:

>cm status
cs:30614@rep:codice@repserver:localhost:6060

Not much to parse as you can see...

[mvdzwaan]

PM me for a PlasticWCREV utility (alpha version) which we use to replace SubWCRev integration in our build proces

[Olaf Kober]

If you like, I can send you the C# source code for a custom MSBuild tasks project that parses the workspace status output and contains other MSBuild tasks for creating and applying labels.

[gweronimo]

NOTE: C# source code for a similar PlasticWcRev tool is published in this blog post:

http://codicesoftware.blogspot.com/2015/09/moving-from-svn-to-plastic-scm-how-we.html