That's a workaround for the binary files, which contains the keywords as plain 
text. Ok.
But it is not really safe ... there is still a probability that the binary will 
be corrupt afterwards.
And it doesn't work for all the other binary files, e.g. schematics, etc.

Anyway thanks for the idea.


> If the text you type into the document will appear in the binary file in 
> plain text (as it seems to in Word files for example), then you can use 
> Subversion keywords as you would in any text file. Subversion has fixed-width 
> versions of its keywords that you would use in this case, to ensure that 
> expanding the keyword won't corrupt the file. So just type "$Rev::    $" or 
> "$Id::              $" in your document, and set svn:keywords on that 
> document to that key. Make sure you use double colons after the keyword name 
> so that you get the fixed-width versions, otherwise you will corrupt the file.

See:

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


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