Version control: Automatic SVN propsets

Propset in SVN, or property setting, is the process of adding versioned metadata to your files. In Joomla development it is common to set the magic svn:keyword property to php-files, to put useful and dynamic information about a file into the file itself. In particular you will very often see the Id keyword being used in the docblock heading of the file. In this tutorial we will look at how you can set this property in your php-files, and how you can configure subversion to do it automatically for you.

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