Use the svn revision number for version information too, version string is now "r<revision>-<builddate> unless there is a static version file (e.g. created by tools/release).

git-svn-id: svn://svn.rockbox.org/rockbox/trunk@12090 a1c6a512-1295-4272-9138-f99709370657

apps/misc.c

@@ -815,7 +815,7 @@ int show_logo( void )
     lcd_clear_display();
     lcd_double_height(true);
     lcd_puts(0, 0, rockbox);
-    lcd_puts(0, 1, appsversion);
+    lcd_puts_scroll(0, 1, appsversion);
 #endif
 
     return 0;

manual/Makefile

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ manual-prep: rockbox.tex
 	@mkdir -p $(OBJDIR)
 	@find * -type d \! -regex '.*\.svn.*' -exec mkdir -p $(OBJDIR)/{} \;
 	@find * -type f \! -regex '.*\.svn.*' -exec cp {} $(OBJDIR)/{} \;
+	@../tools/svnversion.sh > version.tex 
 	@perl credits.pl < ../docs/CREDITS | iconv -f utf-8 -t iso-8859-1 > $(OBJDIR)/CREDITS.tex
 	@echo "\newcommand{\platform}{${MANUALDEV}}" > $(OBJDIR)/rockbox-build.tex
 	@echo "\newcommand{\buildversion}{$(VERSION)}" >> $(OBJDIR)/rockbox-build.tex

manual/intro/main.tex

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 %                     \/            \/     \/    \/            \/
 %                                   - M A N U A L -
 %
-% $Id:$
+% $Id$
 %
 % Copyright (C) 2006 The Rockbox Manual Team
 %
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ contributors.
 \copyright~2004 Christi Alice Scarborough,
 \copyright~2003 Jos\'{e} Maria Garcia-Valdecasas Bernal \& Peter Schlenker.
 \end{quote}
+\vspace{3mm}
+\begin{center}
+\IfFileExists{version.tex}{Build with \LaTeX{} from version \input{version.tex}}{}
+\end{center}
 
 \vspace{\fill}
 \begin{quote}

tools/configure

@@ -1579,7 +1579,7 @@ export OBJDIR=@PWD@
 export BUILDDIR=@PWD@
 export LANGUAGE=@LANGUAGE@
 export MEMORYSIZE=@MEMORY@
-export VERSION=\$(shell date -u +%y%m%d-%H%M)
+export VERSION=\$(shell \$(TOOLSDIR)/svnversion.sh \$(ROOTDIR))
 export BUILDDATE=\$(shell date -u +'-DYEAR=%Y -DMONTH=%m -DDAY=%d')
 export MKFIRMWARE=@TOOL@
 export BMP2RB_MONO=@BMP2RB_MONO@

tools/release

@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ if(!-f "apps/version.h") {
     print "run this script in the root dir\n";
     exit;
 }
+# save the complete version string for VERSION file,
+# strip everything after space / hyphen for filename
+$longversion = $ARGV[0];
+$version =~ s/[ -].+//;
 
 # -L allows find to follow symbolic links
 @files=`find -L . -name FILES`;
@@ -84,7 +88,6 @@ for(@entries) {
     `cp -p $_ $dir 2>/dev/null`;
 }
 
-
 if(!open(VERSION, "<apps/version.h")) {
     print "Can't read version.h\n";
     exit;
@@ -101,5 +104,12 @@ while(<VERSION>) {
 close(VERSION);
 close(THIS);
 
+if(!open(VER, ">rockbox-$version/docs/VERSION")) {
+    print "Can't create new docs/VERSION file\n";
+    exit;
+}
+print VER $version;
+close(VER);
+
 `tar -cjf rockbox-$version.tar.bz2 rockbox-$version`;
 `rm -rf rockbox-$version`;

tools/svnversion.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#             __________               __   ___.
+#   Open      \______   \ ____   ____ |  | _\_ |__   _______  ___
+#   Source     |       _//  _ \_/ ___\|  |/ /| __ \ /  _ \  \/  /
+#   Jukebox    |    |   (  <_> )  \___|    < | \_\ (  <_> > <  <
+#   Firmware   |____|_  /\____/ \___  >__|_ \|___  /\____/__/\_ \
+#                     \/            \/     \/    \/            \/
+# $Id:$
+#
+
+# Usage: svnversion.sh [source-root]
+
+VERSIONFILE=docs/VERSION
+if [ -n "$1" ]; then TOP=$1; else TOP=..; fi
+if [ -r $TOP/$VERSIONFILE ]; then SVNVER=`cat $TOP/$VERSIONFILE`; 
+else if [ `which svnversion 2>/dev/null` ]; 
+    then SVNVER=r`svnversion $1`;
+    if [ $SVNVER = "rexported" ]; then 
+        SVNVER=unknown;
+    fi
+else SVNVER="unknown"; fi
+fi
+VERSION=$SVNVER-`date -u +%y%m%d`
+echo $VERSION
+