title: Subversion auto-props woes
body: <p>This is driving me nuts so any advice from fellow users would be welcome.  I am using Subversion, with a copy of VisualSVN 1.6.1 installed on a Windows server.  On my PC I am using a combination of TortoiseSVN and the wonderful AnkhSVN Visual Studio plugin.  Everything works like a dream, but now I am trying use the <code>svn:keywords</code> feature so I can include <code>$Id$</code> at the top of all my source files.  Now, for existing files I can edit the SVN properties and add this keyword and it all works fine, but I want this done automatically for new files - and I cannot make it work.</p>
  
  <p>According to the documentation you need to edit a special Subversion Config file located in your <code>C:\Documents and Settings\&lt;user&gt;\Application Data\Subversion</code> folder.  My PC already had a copy of this file, so I changed it to look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>[miscellany]
  enable-auto-props = yes
  
  [auto-props]
  *.cpp = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.hpp = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.rc = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.rc2 = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.cc = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.c = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.h = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.wsf = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.js = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.htm = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.html = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  *.css = svn:eol-style=native;svn:keywords=Author Date Id HeadURL Revision
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I then added a new file to an existing Visual Studio project (from within Visual Studio), added <code>$Id$</code> to the top and committed it - but, alas, the <code>svn:keywords</code> property is not being set.</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to get this working?  I even tried adding settings to the registry (in <code>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Tigris.org\Subversion\Config</code>) but still no joy.  I then tried messing with Config files on the SVN server itself, but nothing seems to work.</p>
  
  <p>I have obviously missed something blindingly obvious!</p>