[Wikitech-l] On extension SVN revisions in Special:Version

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Special:Version displays SVN version numbers for extensions out of $wgExtensionCredits, which seems to be done with $LastChangedRevision$ keywords in the extension's entry point file. This produces massively incorrect numbers in many cases, since the entry point file is relatively rarely changed in non-trivial extensions consisting of multiple files. Updates to the body, class, i18n, and other files are not reflected. If we're running on a SVN checkout of the extension, we could check the directory for its current revision much as we do for MediaWiki itself; this would tell us for instance if an extension's subdirectory has been updated separately from the core MediaWiki. But if we aren't on a SVN checkout, or if individual files have been updated to different versions, this may or may not tell us anything useful. Anybody have a suggestion on how to best handle this? - -- brion