diff --git a/getrevision.pl b/getrevision.pl
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..5a0d8f7610
--- /dev/null
+++ b/getrevision.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#! /usr/bin/perl
+
+my $checkrev = qr/commit[ \n]+revision=\"(\d+)\">/;
+my $text = `svn info --xml .`;
+my $revision = $1 if $text =~ $checkrev;
+foreach my $file (@ARGV)
+{
+  my $ftext = `svn info --xml $file`;
+  my $frevision = $1 if $ftext =~ $checkrev;
+  if($frevision > $revision)
+  {
+    $text = $ftext;
+    $revision = $frevision;
+  }
+}
+
+print $text;
diff --git a/osmarender/build.xml b/osmarender/build.xml
index aba9ed653d..aa509c742f 100644
--- a/osmarender/build.xml
+++ b/osmarender/build.xml
@@ -35,11 +35,10 @@
     <copy todir="${plugin.build.dir}" file="${rendering}/osmarender.xsl"/>
     <copy tofile="${plugin.build.dir}/osm-map-features.xml"
 	  file="${rendering}/osm-map-features-z17.xml"/>
-    <exec append="false" output="REVISION" executable="svn" failifexecutionfails="false">
+    <exec append="false" output="REVISION" executable="perl" failifexecutionfails="false">
       <env key="LANG" value="C"/>
-      <arg value="info"/>
-      <arg value="--xml"/>
-      <arg value="."/>
+      <arg value="../getrevision.pl"/>
+      <arg value="osmarender"/>
     </exec>
     <xmlproperty file="REVISION" prefix="version" keepRoot="false" collapseAttributes="true"/>
     <delete file="REVISION"/>
diff --git a/slippy_map_chooser/build.xml b/slippy_map_chooser/build.xml
index 1e9b4c8233..9a5f5592f5 100644
--- a/slippy_map_chooser/build.xml
+++ b/slippy_map_chooser/build.xml
@@ -24,11 +24,10 @@
     <copy todir="build/images">
       <fileset dir="images" />
     </copy>
-    <exec append="false" output="REVISION" executable="svn" failifexecutionfails="false">
+    <exec append="false" output="REVISION" executable="perl" failifexecutionfails="false">
       <env key="LANG" value="C"/>
-      <arg value="info"/>
-      <arg value="--xml"/>
-      <arg value="."/>
+      <arg value="../getrevision.pl"/>
+      <arg value="src_jmv"/>
     </exec>
     <xmlproperty file="REVISION" prefix="version" keepRoot="false" collapseAttributes="true"/>
     <delete file="REVISION"/>
@@ -61,5 +60,4 @@
   <target name="install" depends="dist">
     <copy file="${plugin.jar}" todir="${josm.plugins.dir}"/>
   </target>
-
 </project>