How to add a version counter to a document in LaTeX?

Question

Well this can be a silly question, but now I begin to give copies of my thesis for review, I would like to add a counter versions of the document. Then I have curious if there are any package or some example code that allows to add that to my thesis.

I know I could manually add a line on a page and put any version x, but will there way to automate it? I already checked the version and versions packages in the CTAN, but it is not what I want.

I think this question does not require an MWE, if ever serve say that I'm using the scrbook class. Otherwise I upload a MWE later.

Update

Well this could be a MWE:

\documentclass[fontsize=10pt,paper=letter,headings=big,bibliography=totoc,DIV=8,headsepline=true]{scrbook}    
\usepackage[usenames,dvipsnames,x11names,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage[single=false,macros=false,xspace=false]{acro}
\usepackage[polutonikogreek,spanish,mexico]{babel}
\usepackage[intlimits]{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsthm,amssymb,empheq,bm}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[spanish=mexican]{csquotes}    

%\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage} %[markcase=ignoreuppercase]
\usepackage{scrpage2}
\pagestyle{scrheadings}

\setcounter{tocdepth}{4}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\usepackage{setspace}
%\singlespacing
\onehalfspacing
%\doublespacing

\usepackage{graphicx,subfig,etex,tikz,pgfplots,afterpage}
\graphicspath{{./imagen/}}    

\usepackage{snotez}

\raggedbottom
\clubpenalty=10000
\widowpenalty=1000

\KOMAoption{parskip}{half*}
\setparsizes{1em}{0.25\baselineskip plus .25\baselineskip}{1em plus 1fil}

\renewcommand*{\dictumwidth}{0.4\textwidth}
\setkomafont{dictumauthor}{\upshape}

\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\extratitle{{\large Thesis title}\\ thesis subtitle}
\titlehead{{\LARGE My University} 

\medskip

{\Large My Faculty}\\
\rule{\linewidth}{1pt}\\ 
{\large Engineering}}
\subject{Thesis}
\title{Thesis title}
\subtitle{Tehsis subtitle}
\author{Aradnix Veckhom\thanks{IIMAS} \\{\normalsize Account number: 09804642-5}}
\date{Universitary City \today}
\publishers{Advisor:\\ \begin{normalsize} Dr. Evil\footnotemark[1]\footnote{De facto}\\
        Dr. Mono\footnotemark[1]\footnote{De jure}
\end{normalsize}}

\lowertitleback{La composición tipográfica se llevó a cabo con la ayuda de {\KOMAScript} empleando el sistema \LaTeXe{} de Leslie Lamport con los paquetes \AmS{}; basado a su vez en \TeX{} versión 3.141592 de Donald Knuth; con las familias Mathpazo (Extensión de Palatino diseñada por Hermann Zapf), y Textcomp, en cuerpos de 8/14, 10/14, 11/14, 16/19, 21/25 y 26/31 puntos de pica tradicional.} 

\uppertitleback{\copyright{} 2014 Araden\u{a}torix Veckh\^{o}m Vacel\ae{}vus \\ Diseño y composición: \emph{Listopad}\\
Versión $\beta 1.0$ } 
\maketitle

\end{document}

As you could see I add a line with a version name manually. I simply want to know if it could be automated in someway without need a VCS. That's all.

Have you seen LaTeX packages for use with revision control ? — Paul Gessler, Mar 23 '15 at 21:11
Add a version number to the title of a LaTeX document might be what you're looking for? — Christopher, Mar 23 '15 at 21:13
In any case, if an answer is not already covered elsewhere, we'd need to know which version control system you use. — Paul Gessler, Mar 23 '15 at 21:32
An MWE might not be strictly needed to understand your question, but not providing one requires potential answerers to create one in order to demonstrate any solution. — cfr, Mar 24 '15 at 01:19
@PaulGessler not yet but thanks for the suggestion. In fact I use git, but not with this project. My thesis advisors have no idea about what is a version control system nor willingness to learn, so don't go out there my doubt. It was a much more pedestrian question. — Aradnix, Mar 24 '15 at 05:39
@JJoao Thanks, good idea but KOMA Script has its own package for this instead of fancyhdr. I could find an equivalent for the trick you suggest. — Aradnix, Mar 24 '15 at 06:11
Then why have you tagged it [tag:revision-control]? This tag is for using TeX with VCSs. — Paul Gessler, Mar 24 '15 at 11:49
You don't need version control for your thesis advisors you need it for you :-) — David Carlisle, Mar 24 '15 at 11:51
There is not a unique solution. I would like to see an answer summarizing the basic ideas (and accepting comments/contributions). — JJoao, Mar 24 '15 at 12:03
@DavidCarlisle You're right, but that version number is what I use with them. — Aradnix, Mar 24 '15 at 23:02
You probably are not generating three different versions per day, so i think to put the current date (\today) to the footer will be completely sufficient to keep track of the version. — Johannes_B, Jun 04 '15 at 21:54

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 16 '15 at 20:08

Well, I think I would do it "half automate". I mean to build a mechanismn to take over the versions number of a tool like subversion or so I would not do. It is not interesting how many times I changed/saved my code (that could be 10 times a day or more), the intersting thing a numbering of the versions your professor gets (of course it is then a good idea to save the posted versions on your computer, too).

So I simply create a new command \myscriptversion in the main tex file containing a versions number and the printing date like:

\newcommand{\myscriptversion}{Versi{\`o}n $\beta 1.0$, \today}

Now you can use this new command to add the version on every place you need it, for example on the title page or (IMHO better) in the footer:

\ifoot{\myscriptversion}% add version to foot line of each page
\uppertitleback{\copyright{} 2014 Araden\u{a}torix Veckh\^{o}m Vacel\ae{}vus \\ 
  Diseño y composición: \emph{Listopad}\\
  \myscriptversion}

Your changed code (I added blindtext to be able to see the footer of a normal page; changes see < =========== marks):

\documentclass[%
  fontsize=10pt,
  paper=letter,
  headings=big,
  bibliography=totoc,
  DIV=8,
  headsepline=true
]{scrbook}

\newcommand{\myscriptversion}{Versi{\`o}n $\beta 1.0$, \today} % <======
\usepackage{blindtext}  % <=============================================

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[polutonikogreek,spanish,mexico]{babel}
\usepackage[spanish=mexican]{csquotes}    

\usepackage{amsmath}

%\usepackage{scrlayer-scrpage} %[markcase=ignoreuppercase]
\usepackage{scrpage2}
\ifoot{\myscriptversion} % <===========================================
\pagestyle{scrheadings}

\setcounter{tocdepth}{4}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{4}
\usepackage{setspace}
%\singlespacing
\onehalfspacing
%\doublespacing

\raggedbottom
\clubpenalty=10000
\widowpenalty=1000

\KOMAoption{parskip}{half*}
\setparsizes{1em}{0.25\baselineskip plus .25\baselineskip}{1em plus 1fil}

\renewcommand*{\dictumwidth}{0.4\textwidth}
\setkomafont{dictumauthor}{\upshape}


\begin{document}

\frontmatter
\extratitle{{\large Thesis title}\\ thesis subtitle}
\titlehead{{\LARGE My University} 

\medskip

{\Large My Faculty}\\
\rule{\linewidth}{1pt}\\ 
{\large Engineering}}

\subject{Thesis}
\title{Thesis title}
\subtitle{Tehsis subtitle}
\author{Aradnix Veckhom\thanks{IIMAS} \\{\normalsize Account number: 09804642-5}}
\date{Universitary City \today}
\publishers{Advisor:\\ \begin{normalsize} Dr. Evil\footnotemark[1]\footnote{De facto}\\
        Dr. Mono\footnotemark[1]\footnote{De jure}
\end{normalsize}}

\lowertitleback{La composición tipográfica se llevó a cabo con la ayuda de {\KOMAScript} empleando el sistema \LaTeXe{} de Leslie Lamport con los paquetes \AmS{}; basado a su vez en \TeX{} versión 3.141592 de Donald Knuth; con las familias Mathpazo (Extensión de Palatino diseñada por Hermann Zapf), y Textcomp, en cuerpos de 8/14, 10/14, 11/14, 16/19, 21/25 y 26/31 puntos de pica tradicional.} 

\uppertitleback{\copyright{} 2014 Araden\u{a}torix Veckh\^{o}m Vacel\ae{}vus \\ 
  Diseño y composición: \emph{Listopad}\\
  \myscriptversion}  % <================================================
\maketitle

\mainmatter      % <====================================================
\Blinddocument   % <====================================================

\end{document}

How to add a version counter to a document in LaTeX?

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