setting a keyword tag like Id or Header in subversion

  1. update ~/.subversion/config 

[miscellany]
enable-auto-props = yes
[auto-props]
svn:keywords=Id Header

  1. set props on existing files 

    find . -exec svn propset svn:keywords "Id Header" {} \;

  2. add the Id tag to each file. 

#!/bin/sh
#
# version: $Header$
#
############################################################

cat | while read file ; do ls $file ; done

############################################################
# vim: set syn=python noet ts=4 sw=4 tw=78:
# EOF: filename