Adding SVN keyword expansion in Tortoise SVN
When using Tortoise SVN client to access my Subversion repositories from Windows, I tend to forget to set up keyword expansion (unlike in the Linux command-line, where one can always invoke svn propset svn:keywords "Id Date Author" somefile).
In Tortoise, this can be done by enabling auto-props in the configuration. In Windows Explorer, right-click to get to the Tortoise context menu:
(Yes, I’m a bit O.C. so even my resume is under version control. :P)
Edit the Subversion configuration file, specifically the following properties:
[miscellany] ... enable-auto-props = yes ... [auto-props] *.txt = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL;svn:eol-style=native *.html = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL
This tells Tortoise to expand the keywords specified for the given files. Note that this works only on new files added to the repo after the configuration has been modified.
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