version-info

Purpose:

Show version information about this tree.

Usage:

bzr version-info [LOCATION]

Options:

--all	Include all possible information.
-v, --verbose	Display more information.
--include-history
	Include the revision-history.
--check-clean	Check if tree is clean.
-q, --quiet	Only display errors and warnings.
--include-file-revisions
	Include the last revision for each file.
--template=ARG	Template for the output.
--usage	Show usage message and options.
-r ARG, --revision=ARG
	See “help revisionspec” for details.
-h, --help	Show help message.

format:

--format=ARG	Select the output format.
--custom	Version info in Custom template-based format.
--python	Version info in Python format.
--rio	Version info in RIO (simple text) format (default).

Description:

You can use this command to add information about version into source code of an application. The output can be in one of the supported formats or in a custom format based on a template.

For example:

bzr version-info --custom \
  --template="#define VERSION_INFO \"Project 1.2.3 (r{revno})\"\n"

will produce a C header file with formatted string containing the current revision number. Other supported variables in templates are:

• {date} - date of the last revision

• {build_date} - current date

• {revno} - revision number

• {revision_id} - revision id

• {branch_nick} - branch nickname

• {clean} - 0 if the source tree contains uncommitted changes,

  otherwise 1