On Aug 10, 2011, at 11:06, Jason Aubrey wrote: > I'd like to use keyword substitution or something like it to > automatically append/update license information in a large collection > of files. In other words, I'd like the licensing information to be a > property of the file, but also appear as text in the file. I can do > the former with properties, but can't see how to do the latter in some > automatic easy way. (Also, ideally, the license text in the file would > come from the property on the file. ) > > Is it possible to do this? I haven't yet deduced how to do this from > the svn book.
Subversion doesn't have this feature. Subversion keyword substitution is not expandable by the user; you can't define your own keywords or change how the existing keywords behave.