On Tuesday 05 August 2008 10:27:56 Jan Hendrik wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am certain this is impossible, but I'd like to ask anyway:
>
> can parts of a file be marked to be excluded from versioning? Like
> a comment in code the parser ignores?
>
> I have a Perl script that takes an input file (actually a listing of
> items a Word macro has preformatted for HTML), extracts several
> things for title, description, keyword tags, adds an illustration and
> some other things, and creates a separate file for each item.
> Naturally it works best if the items in the listing have a good deal of
> similarity, and likewise in every case of use there have to be some
> adjustments made to the Perl code to meet specific requirements.
> However, there is no reason to have these adjustments ending up
> in the repository. Some of these actually enhance the script for
> future abuse though and should be versioned yet, as I would like
> the script as such.
>
> Part of these adjustment things could be moved into a separate
> config file easily, but not all, or the config would become quite
> clumsy (and the script blown up with lots of use cases now
> handled by just moving around a few lines of PRINT code).
>
> Also the actual script could be made a template which is under
> version control, having users to copy it before using it. But
>
> A) would this make things more complicated as most of the users
> here already are not familiar with Perl and another hurdle of using
> the script would only have them doing things manually, item by
> item.
>
> B) adjustments which should be kept as enhancements are likely
> to be lost as they would have to be copied over to the template.
>
> So once more my question:
>
> can certain parts of a file be marked to be excluded from
> versioning? Like a comment which the parser (here: SVN diff etc.)
> excludes?
>
> TIA
>
> Jan Hendrik
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You could separate those parts into different files.
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Received on 2008-08-05 09:30:53 CEST