Adding SVN Revision Numbers to Your Application’s Version
Recently, I’ve been given an oppotunity at my employer to participate in the next great version of our iPhone application. While it isn’t something fun and exciting, like ConvertBot or a game such as Eliminate Pro, it does allow me to get my hands dirty in Objective-C and iPhone development. With this experience has come a few things that I found difficult, at best, to spot an answer to within a single location. One of these things is something that, within a large corporation such as the one I work in, will help your support staff determine what version of your application a user currently has. Yes, there are items such as CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString that accomplish this for you, but sometimes those may not be enough. Wouldn’t it be great if you could put the most recent commit revision number from your code repository? Good news, you can! Read more…