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See <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.c.propset.html" title="svn propset (pset, ps)">svn propset (pset, ps)</a> later in this chapter.</p> </div> <div class="refsynopsisdiv" title="Synopsis"> <h2>Synopsis</h2> <p> <code class="literal">svn propedit PROPNAME TARGET...</code> </p> <p> <code class="literal">svn propedit PROPNAME --revprop -r REV [TARGET]</code> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Description"> <a id="idp20847440"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p>Edit one or more properties using your favorite editor. The first form edits versioned properties in your working copy, and the second edits unversioned remote properties on a repository revision (<em class="replaceable"><code>TARGET</code></em> determines only which repository to access).</p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Options"> <a id="idp20849712"></a> <h2>Options</h2> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.editor_cmd"><code class="option">--editor-cmd</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>CMD</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.encoding"><code class="option">--encoding</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>ENC</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.file"><code class="option">--file</code> (<code class="option">-F</code>) <em class="replaceable"><code>FILENAME</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.force"><code class="option">--force</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.force_log"><code class="option">--force-log</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.message"><code class="option">--message</code> (<code class="option">-m</code>) <em class="replaceable"><code>MESSAGE</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.revision"><code class="option">--revision</code> (<code class="option">-r</code>) <em class="replaceable"><code>REV</code></em></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.revprop"><code class="option">--revprop</code></a> <a class="xref" href="svn.ref.svn.html#svn.ref.svn.sw.with_revprop"><code class="option">--with-revprop</code> <em class="replaceable"><code>ARG</code></em></a> </pre> </div> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Examples"> <a id="idp20857824"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p><span class="command"><strong>svn propedit</strong></span> makes it easy to modify properties that have multiple values:</p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="screen"> $ svn propedit svn:keywords foo.c # svn will open in your favorite text editor a temporary file # containing the current contents of the svn:keywords property. 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