Is there a way to specify $GlobalRev$ in a file using Subclipse for Eclipse

Question

I know how to get the local version number into a file with Eclipse. Right click, Team, set property then svn:keywords Id.

But how do you get the $GlobalRev$ to appear? There's something called svnversion which is supposed to do this but is it integrated into Subclipse?

Answer 1

Subversion does not support the concept of a $GlobalRev$ keyword. There is a command line tool called svnversion that will output revisions to stdout. You can combine that with a script to write this to a file. This is asked about all the time, so there is a FAQ:

http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#version-value-in-source

If you are on Windows, there is also a command line program available called SubWCRev.exe that is similar to svnversion but will do substitution in a file for you. Note that you cannot use this on a versioned file, you need the combine it with a template file of some kind. See:

http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN%5Fen/tsvn-subwcrev.html

Either of these could be run from Eclipse by setting up an External Tool command for it.