On Wednesday 10 August 2011, 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. )
You discovered yourself that you can set arbitrary properties on a file and others already mentioned that you can't use this to expand keywords. What you can do though is to create a script that checks the license property and substitutes a placeholder in the file or prepends a header. What this doesn't achieve is that anybody checking out will see the license. That said, even SVN keyword substitution is performed on client-side, so it can be circumvented. There is another thing that comes to mind. You could include a text stanza like "see 'license.text' for licensing details" to the file and then use svn:external to reference the file from somewhere else. That would allow changing the license without having to touch hundreds of files. Cheers! Uli -- ML: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/mailing-lists.html FAQ: http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html Docs: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ ************************************************************************************** Domino Laser GmbH, Fangdieckstra�e 75a, 22547 Hamburg, Deutschland Gesch�ftsf�hrer: Thorsten F�cking, Amtsgericht Hamburg HR B62 932 ************************************************************************************** Visit our website at http://www.dominolaser.com ************************************************************************************** Diese E-Mail einschlie�lich s�mtlicher Anh�nge ist nur f�r den Adressaten bestimmt und kann vertrauliche Informationen enthalten. Bitte benachrichtigen Sie den Absender umgehend, falls Sie nicht der beabsichtigte Empf�nger sein sollten. Die E-Mail ist in diesem Fall zu l�schen und darf weder gelesen, weitergeleitet, ver�ffentlicht oder anderweitig benutzt werden. E-Mails k�nnen durch Dritte gelesen werden und Viren sowie nichtautorisierte �nderungen enthalten. Domino Laser GmbH ist f�r diese Folgen nicht verantwortlich. **************************************************************************************
