NAME

       autorevision - extract current-revision metadata from version-control repositories

SYNOPSIS

       autorevision {-t <output-type> | -s <symbol>} [-o <cache-file> [-f] ] [-U] [-V]

DESCRIPTION

       Extracts metadata about the head revision from your repository.

       This program is meant to be used by project build systems to extract properties that can
       be used in software version strings. It can emit source files containing variable and
       macro definitions suitable for use with C, C++, Java, sh, Python, Perl, Mac info.plist and
       other types of files (see below for the full list).

       The generated source is written to standard output.

       This program can normally be called from anywhere within a repository copy. Under bzr the
       copy must be of a branch, not a full multibranch repository. Under Subversion it must be
       called under a repository checkout, not the repository itself.

       If you specify a cache file, then when autorevision is run where no repository can be
       recognized, the values from the cache file will be used instead. If a repository can be
       recognized, the cache is rewritten. This feature makes it possible for your build to run
       from an unpacked tarball that includes the cache file.

   Valid Repository Types
       Git: A version greater than 1.7.2.3 is recommended.

       Mercurial: A version greater than 1.6 is recommended.

       Subversion: Any production version.

       Bazaar: Any production version.

   Valid Output Types
       h
           A header file suitable for C/C++.

       xcode
           A header like output for use with xcode to populate info.plist strings.

       sh
           A text file suitable for including from a bash script. Will work with Ruby.

       py
           A Python source file setting Python variables (python is an acceptable synonym).

       pl
           A Perl source file setting Perl variables (perl is an acceptable synonym).

       lua
           A lua source file setting lua variables.

       php
           A PHP source file setting PHP variables.

       ini
           A ini source file setting ini variables.

       js
           A javascript source file setting javascript variables.

       json
           A JSON format file.

       java
           A Java source file setting class properties.

       javaprop
           A Java properties file (like ini); useful when META-INF is readable in Java.

       tex
           A TeX source file defining TeX macros. Note that the symbols are given different names
           since the underscore has a special meaning in TeX. For example, VCS_SHORT_HASH is
           renamed to \vcsShortHash.

       m4
           An m4 source file defining m4 macros.

   Valid Symbol Names
       VCS_TYPE
           The repository type - "git", "hg", "bzr", or "svn".

       VCS_BASENAME
           The basename of the directory root. For most VCSes this will simply be the basename of
           the repository root directory. For Subversion, autorevision will navigate up though
           trunk, branches, and tags directories to find the actual root.

       VCS_NUM
           A count of revisions between the current one and the initial one; useful for reporting
           build numbers.

       VCS_DATE
           The date of the most recent commit in true ISO-8601/RFC3339 format, including seconds.

       VCS_BRANCH
           The name of the branch of the commit graph that was selected when autoversion was run.
           Under Subversion this will normally be either trunk or the basename of some branch or
           tag subdirectory, depending on where autoversion was run. Under git, this will
           normally be the shortname of the current branch (the asterisked line in the output of
           of "git branch") except that when the branch doesn’t have a shortname it will be a
           full refspec. Under hg the feature that is called branches is actually a sort of graph
           coloring (multiple heads can have the same branch name) so this variable is filled
           with the current bookmark if it exists, with the current branch name as a fallback.
           Under bzr, this is the nick of the branch you are on.

       VCS_TAG
           The name of the most recent tag ancestral to the current commit. Empty under
           Subversion.

       VCS_TICK
           A count of commits since most recent tag ancestral to the current commit or an alias
           of VCS_NUM if there are no prior tags.

           Empty under Subversion.

       VCS_FULL_HASH
           A full unique identifier for the current revision.

       VCS_SHORT_HASH
           A shortened version of VCS_FULL_HASH, but VCS_FULL_HASH if it cannot be shortened.

       VCS_WC_MODIFIED
           Set to 1 if the current working directory has been modified and 0 if not.  Untracked
           files are not ignored; see -U for details.  If the output language is interpreted and
           has native Boolean literals, true will mean modified and false unmodified. The C/C++
           output is left as numeric so the preprocessor can test it.

OPTIONS

       -t <output-type>
           Sets the output type. It is required unless -s is specified; both -t and -s cannot be
           used in the same invocation.

       -s <symbol>
           Changes the reporting behavior; instead of emitting a symbol file to stdout, only the
           value of that individual symbol will be reported. It is required unless -t is
           specified; both -t and -s cannot be used in the same invocation.

       -o <cache-file>
           Sets the name of the cache file.

       -f
           Forces the use cache data even when in a repo; useful if you want to preprocess the
           data before final output.

       -U
           Causes untracked files to be checked when determining if the working copy is modified
           for Subversion only. While this is the default behavior for all other repository types
           it is off by default for Subversion because of speed concerns.

       -V
           Emits the autorevision version and exits.

BUGS

       The bzr extractor is not very well tested as yet.

       When a git repo is actually a git-svn remote, this tool tries to do the right thing and
       return a Subversion revision. The bug is that the detector code for this case is somewhat
       unreliable; you will get the hash instead if your configuration doesn’t use
       svn-remote.svn.url.

       Nested repositories, particularly repositories of different types, may result in incorrect
       and unintended behavior.

AUTHORS

       dak180 <dak180@users.sf.net>: concept, bash/C/C++/XCode/PHP/ini support, git and hg
       extraction. Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>: Python/Perl/lua/m4 support, svn and bzr
       extraction, git-svn support, CLI design, man page.

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