Having the actual revision of source checked out (or updated) available to ebuilds is useful: - ebuild can override project version where possible (makes it possible to report bugs telling the source revision) - on compilation errors, can provide revision I suggest setting variable ESVN_REVISION after checkout/update.
Created attachment 87047 [details, diff] Patch to add ESVN_REVISION variable Sugested patch to generate ESVN_REVISION variable
Fixed in CVS. subversion_wc_info function sets ESVN_WC_REVISION and ESVN_WC_URL variables.