Sounds easy enough, and here are the steps: 1. Firstly access the settings file of SVN through the Tortoise context menu (right-click). 2. Enable automatic properties in the miscellany section. [miscellany] enable-auto-props = yes 3. Add the file extensions and keywords you want to be activated. [auto-props] *.html = svn:keywords=Date Id Rev Author URL *.js [...]