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Since we often build GeoServer in between official releases, it would be nice to see a place in the UI where the SVN revision number is displayed. ("Built from r8675309") This way, one could distinguish two different GeoServer builds from the same branch (where the version numbers for both would be the same).
If there is a way to do this currently, I apologize for the unnecessary task.
Afaik there is no easy way to get this... we'd need some tool that gathers the number and places it into the generated war, see also here:
http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#version-value-in-source
There is also this plugin, but I haven't investigated it:
http://mojo.codehaus.org/buildnumber-maven-plugin/usage.html