how can I have eclipse auto insert subversion revision number into my code

Question

I'm interested in displaying the version number of my code in a help page. Ideally I'd use a Major.Minor.SVNrevision format, where the SVNrevision number was pulled automatically. I hope? Suspect there's a variable I can access somewhere, but have no idea what it may be.

Any hints?

Answer 1

You can do this by adding so-called SVN Keywords into your working files. This chapter contains standard SVN keywords. Then you have two options:

1. set property for each folder svn:keywords to make this substitution available for all who works with this repository: svn propset svn:keywords "Date Author Revision" help.html

2. modify svn configuration file (on Windows: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Subversion\config, on Linux: ~/.subversion/config) to enable automatic properties for all repositories and files (according to pattern) you're working with: set enable-auto-props to yes and then add to [auto-props] section: *.html = svn:keywords=Date Author Revision

Answer 2

If your help files are versioned, I would add an external script as an Eclipse builder in order to make some keyword substitution (using for instance svnversion)

But if your help files are generated, may be this kind of script can help (also based on svnversion to get back the "GlobalRev").

Major and Minor version information need to be stored and retrieved from another souce though: they are not "svn-related" informations.