Add SVN branch name to LaTeX cover page

Question

I want to add the name of the SVN branch (under the heading) as a kind of version information. I want this to be done automatically, so when copying files generating documentation to another (new) branch, I get this information automatically. Any clues?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Thus, the svn package (e.g. svn-multi ) and xstring .

• First set the keywords property in the tex file:

  svn propset svn: keywords "URL Date Rev"> your_file <.tex

• Next, add the .tex file to the beginning:

  \ svnidlong

  {$ HeadURL $}

  {$ LastChangedDate $}

  {$ LastChangedRevision $}

  {$ LastChangedBy $}

• Then, add a line like this to the body of the document (depending on what you want to extract)

  \StrBetween{\svnmainurl}{branches/}{/sourcecode} \\

• Complete the .tex file for svn so that the data fills up

And this!:)

Answer 2

Look at keyword substitution:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html

Edit:

Or, alternatively, you can use the svn info to get the path from your working copy, write it to a file, read the contents and parse using a regular expression. I assume you have some kind of build process that you use to create an output from a LaTeX source?

Also the publication here: http://magic.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/2006/09/28/subversion-keywords-and-latex/ contains additional information about how you do it.

And here: http://www.ctan.org/pkg/svninfo