Include SVN revision number in source code

Question

My requirement is simple. At the beginning of each file there should be a block comment like this:

/*
 * This file was last modified by {username} at {date}          


        

Answer 1

I followed Petar Minchev's suggestions, only I put the $LastChangedRevision$ tag not in a comment block but embedded it in a string. Now it is available to programmatically display the revision number in a Help -> About dialog.

String build = "$LastChangedRevision$";

I can later display the revision value in the about dialog using a String that has all of the fluff trimmed off.

String version = build.replace("$LastChangedRevision:", "").replace("$", "").trim();