Any simple way to set/get global revision number?

Say I have a c file called version.h and in this file is a macro to build a version string using $HeadURL$ and $Revision$. When a user runs the program this information is printed into the log file to help isolate problems to specific versions that change on daily basis.

Is there a way to set a property so that this version.h file is automatically checked out whenever an update is made to the directory even if the version.h file is not touched? Or conversely, is there a way to have it automatically checked in as a changed file whenever a commit is done on any other file in the directory?

I'm trying to avoid having to manually run/maintain external scripts or programs like svnversion to scrape/touch/alter version files and force changes since the src files may be ported to different systems and I want the svn info embedded into a single version file.

Am I out of luck for an easy solution?

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Received on 2009-12-08 20:46:40 CET