diff -r 000000000000 -r 0d40e90630ef web/lib/django/utils/version.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/web/lib/django/utils/version.py	Wed Jan 20 00:34:04 2010 +0100
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+import django
+import os.path
+import re
+
+def get_svn_revision(path=None):
+    """
+    Returns the SVN revision in the form SVN-XXXX,
+    where XXXX is the revision number.
+
+    Returns SVN-unknown if anything goes wrong, such as an unexpected
+    format of internal SVN files.
+
+    If path is provided, it should be a directory whose SVN info you want to
+    inspect. If it's not provided, this will use the root django/ package
+    directory.
+    """
+    rev = None
+    if path is None:
+        path = django.__path__[0]
+    entries_path = '%s/.svn/entries' % path
+
+    try:
+        entries = open(entries_path, 'r').read()
+    except IOError:
+        pass
+    else:
+        # Versions >= 7 of the entries file are flat text.  The first line is
+        # the version number. The next set of digits after 'dir' is the revision.
+        if re.match('(\d+)', entries):
+            rev_match = re.search('\d+\s+dir\s+(\d+)', entries)
+            if rev_match:
+                rev = rev_match.groups()[0]
+        # Older XML versions of the file specify revision as an attribute of
+        # the first entries node.
+        else:
+            from xml.dom import minidom
+            dom = minidom.parse(entries_path)
+            rev = dom.getElementsByTagName('entry')[0].getAttribute('revision')
+
+    if rev:
+        return u'SVN-%s' % rev
+    return u'SVN-unknown'