Just a note for you all. If you want svn to modify the $Id$ tags the way SVN does, you need to enable it for the PKGBUILD. This is done like so: svn propset svn:keywords Id <filename> The available keywords for replacement are: LastChangedDate LastChangedRevision LastChangedBy HeadURL Id Please keep in mind the above is a "set" operation, not an "append" operation - if I later set svn:keywords to HeadURL, it overwrites the previous setting. You can do the following to set multiple keywords: svn propset svn:keywords "Id HeadURL LastChangedBy" <filename> If you guys like, we can run this once across the whole repo for all PKGBUILDs. find . -name PKGBUILD -exec svn propset svn:keywords Id {} \; What do you think?