I did try to use SVN keywords ($rev$) but the issue is that the source you browse on googlecode is not a working copy, so you get $Rev: xxxxx$ in your working copy, but $Rev$ when fetching the JS from the googlecode web server.

See the getVersion() function in svgcanvas.js.

Regards,
Jeff

There are still some grips/nits I have with GoogleCode+Subversion:
Being able to display the current revision number in SVG-edit

So, that would be somehow easy for single file projects, which doesn’t seem to be the case [1]… (Good for modularity, of course!) If it was, then you simply needed to add the appropriate SVN keyword(s) [2] and parse them with JavaScript afterward. Note that I’m not sure if this works while directly accessing repository files (it’s the SVN client’s job to turn something like $Rev$ into $Rev: 123$ so…

I’ve recently reported a tightly related issue [3] in SVGWeb you’ll probably want to take a look at. The current idea is to use an SVN utility command such as svnsvnversion (or TortoiseSVN’s SubWCRev [4] or even svnwcrev [5], which are similar) in order to fetch the highest revision of all files in a subtree. The disadvantage is that it needs to be run in a working copy.

Cheers,
Helder

[1] http://code.google.com/p/svg-edit/source/browse/#svn/trunk/editor
[2] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.advanced.props.special.keywords.html
[3] http://code.google.com/p/svgweb/issues/detail?id=356
[4] http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-subwcrev.html
[5] http://svnwcrev.tigris.org/