Thanks for all the suggestions: Kacper's answer is what I was looking for. Nice and elegant.
> On Sep 22, 2020, at 5:44 PM, Kacper Gutowski <mwgam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 02:17:46PM -0400, Peter Teeson wrote: >> I want to write a bash script to >> compare the local working copy revision number >> vs >> the svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/apl/trun >> <svn://svn.savannah.gnu.org/apl/trun> repository revision number. >> >> I know how to find out the revision number of my local working copy >> using svnversion or svn info if i need more data. > > Unless I'm mistaking something, what you want is simply the revision number > of the HEAD: > > svn info -r HEAD --show-item revision > > vs revision number of your working copy: > > svn info --show-item revision > > -k >