[SVN-4226] svnversion output not always a number

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.x
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: docs
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Subversion Importer
• Created: 03/Sep/12 17:38
• Updated: 27/Oct/18 16:28
• Resolved: 10/Sep/12 11:58

Description

svnversion's man page contains:

NAME
 svnversion - Produce a compact version number for a working copy.

svnversion --help rightly puts "version number" in scare quotes:

Produce a compact 'version number' for the working copy path
  WC_PATH.  TRAIL_URL is the trailing portion of the URL used to
  determine if WC_PATH itself is switched (detection of switches
  within WC_PATH does not rely on TRAIL_URL).  The version number
  is written to standard output.

Indeed, the output may be a number, but it may contain more than a number (for
example, "4123S"). It would be more exact to refer to a "version string".

Original issue reported by chealer