On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:17, Julian Mitchell <jupeos_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Andy - so when you want to diff a file it takes 25 minutes?
No. I don't have to generate/compile/deploy anything to perform a diff.
> 2009/12/23 Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:21, Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com> wrote:
>> >> 2009/12/23 Bob Archer <Bob.Archer_at_amsi.com>
>> >> > On Dec 23, 2009, at 00:45, Julian Mitchell wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > > The project that I am working on utilises a code generation
>> >> tool.
>> >> > The header of every source file includes a comment with a
>> >> date\time
>> >> > stamp of when it was generated. The problem is that every time
>> >> the
>> >> > code is generated the svn change check algorithm marks all files
>> >> as
>> >> > having been changed even though only a handful have actually had
>> >> > actual code changes.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Is there a way to tailor the change check algorithm with, say,
>> >> a
>> >> > regex, to ignore certain contents of a text file e.g. comment
>> >> > lines?
>> >> >
>> >> > To my knowledge, there is not. You could consider writing a
>> >> client-
>> >> > side script that committers should run before checking in source,
>> >> > to normalize such comment lines e.g. to remove the date/time. You
>> >> > could also write a companion server-side hook script to reject
>> >> any
>> >> > commit where the only difference is such a comment line.
>> >> I think the current wisdom is, don't source control files that can
>> >> be generated. So, for the same reason you [usually] don't store
>> >> binaries that you build from your source don't store code files
>> >> that are generated. Make the generation part of the build so that
>> >> any dev running the build script gets the files generated for them.
>> >>
>> >> BOb
>> >> Thanks for both your input.
>> >> Ryan - is there a convenient place to hook in to the client side? I
>> >> would like to catch this prior it to being displayed as a
>> >> modification.
>> >> Bob - you are correct and I agree with you however the generation
>> >> process takes a while (30s - 1minute) and the controlled package
>> >> files are ghastly to diff from a code readability perspective.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Hmm... I see. Can you possibly put the results of the genned code onto a
>> > shared location so the devs can just pull the latest down rather than
>> > needing to take... wait 30 SECONDS?
>>
>> 30 seconds is nothing, really. My primary app takes 25 minutes to
>> deploy into Tomcat whenever I'm doing a code/test cycle on my laptop.
>> If an extra step added 30 seconds, it'd make no difference to me.
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