SvnAutoConf

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Keyword substitution in Subversion takes place only if the keyword has been set on the file with svn propset, for example

svn propset svn:keywords "Id Date Author" foo.txt

It's moderately inconvenient to remember to do this every time you make add a new file to an svn repository. Instead, svn lets you control this automatically in a personal set of [runtime configuration files]. For Linux, these are in a directory named .subversion in your home directory. Windows configuration is described [[in this section of the svn book]. The .subversion file should have been made automatically the first time you used svn.

Briefly, in .subversion/config, you must (a)enable auto-config, by default "no" and (b) specify by a regular expression which files you wish which properties to be automatically have propset applied when you add them to svn.

Mine looks like this:

...
[miscellany]
...
enable-auto-props = yes
...
[auto-props]
...
*.java = svn:keywords=Date Revision Author Id
*.rdf = svn:keywords=Date Revision Author Id
*.owl = svn:keywords=Date Revision Author Id
*.sql = svn:keywords=Date Revision Author Id
*.spql = svn:keywords=Date Revision Author Id

--Bob Morris 11:18, 22 December 2011 (EST)

TO DO

• Somebody needs to check whether the IDE's such as eclipse use the same mechanism and/or where/how they put the configuration data.
• Bob needs to see if sourceforge supports setting auto-props globally in their svn implementation.