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 recommend a slightly different approach.

Put the following header at the top of your source files.

/*
 * This file was last modified by {username} at {date} and has revision number {revisionnumber}
 */

Then add a shell script like this

post update, checkout script

USERNAME=# // use svnversion to get username
DATE=# // use svnversion to get revisio nnumber
sed -e "s#{username}#${USERNAME}#" -e "s#{date}#${DATE}#" ${SOURCE_CONTROL_FILE} > ${SOURCE_FILE}

pre commit script

cat standard_header.txt > ${SOURCE_CONTROL_FILE}
tail --lines $((${LENGTH}-4)) ${SOURCE_FILE} >> ${SOURCE_CONTROL_FILE}