[pacman-dev] [PATCH] makepkg: speed up svn revision check for large repositories

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Using the suggestion from FS#10905, use 'svn info' rather than 'svn log' to
> get the current revision number, which is much quicker for large Subversion
> repositories. Eventually git will rule the world. :)
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan at archlinux.org>
> ---
>  scripts/makepkg.sh.in |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> index b810d60..2ab2aef 100644
> --- a/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> +++ b/scripts/makepkg.sh.in
> @@ -1017,7 +1017,7 @@ devel_check() {
>                elif [ ! -z ${_svntrunk} ] && [ ! -z ${_svnmod} ] ; then
>                        [ $(type -p svn) ] || return 0
>                        msg "$(gettext "Determining latest svn revision...")"
> -                       newpkgver=$(svn log $_svntrunk --limit 1 -q | sed -n 's/^r\([0-9]*\) .*$/\1/p')
> +                       newpkgver=$(LC_ALL= LANG= svn info $_svntrunk | sed -n 's/^Last Changed Rev: \([0-9]*\)$/\1/p')
I settled on this after I saw a similar use case elsewhere in makepkg:
  echo "# $(LC_ALL= LANG= date -u)" >>.PKGINFO
I think it makes sense. Let me know if anyone has better ideas.

>                elif [ ! -z ${_bzrtrunk} ] && [ ! -z ${_bzrmod} ] ; then
>                        [ $(type -p bzr) ] || return 0
>                        msg "$(gettext "Determining latest bzr revision...")"
> --
> 1.5.6.2
>
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