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RE: ignore local change

From: Ben Kim <bkim_at_tamu.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:02:18 -0500 (CDT)

Thanks Bob and David, it's helpful.

I'll look whether I can customize diff command.

Regards,

Ben Kim

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Bob Archer wrote:

> BTW: TortoiseSVN does implement the "ignore change list" idea. Although, I would rather go with checking in a template and then using build scripts or deploy scripts to create the correctly named file populating and tokens in the file that need to be customized.
>
> BOb
>
>
>
>> There's no way to do this easily:
>>
>> Ignoring is only for non-subversion files. For example, if every time
>> I do a build, a directory called "build" is created, I can create an
>> ignore, so that this directory won't show up on "svn status', but if a
>> file is changed and is part of the Subversion repository, ignore won't
>> work.
>>
>> What you can do is create a changelist and use that when you do
>> commands like svn status and svn diff. (BTW, I think you meant "svn
>> diff" in your original post. All "svn status" would do is list that
>> the file was modified).
>>
>> Unfortunately, you have to keep manually maintaining your changelists
>> and remember to use the --cl parameter when you do things like "svn
>> status", "svn info", and of course, "svn commit".
>>
>> Just as aside: I like the way Perforce handles changelists. In
>> Perforce you have the concept of a default changelist. All files that
>> are changed are placed in the default changelist unless you specify
>> otherwise. When you do any workspace command like a diff or commit,
>> and you don't specify a changelist, Perforce automatically operates
>> only on the default changelist.
>>
>> That makes it easy to make a change in a file, and then toss it into
>> an "ignore" changelist. Doing a diff or status will ignore the
>> "ignore" changelist unless you specify otherwise in the workspace
>> command. And, most importantly, when you do a commit, and you don't
>> specify a changelist, only the files in your default changelist are
>> committed and not the ones in your "ignore" changelist.
>>
>> The only issue is that developers sometimes forget about their
>> "ignore" changelist and never revert the changes or commit them. That
>> can allow a build to succeed on a developer's machine, but fail when
>> the build server attempts to do the build.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ben Kim <bkim_at_tamu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> version: subversion 1.6.6 on cygwin, FC12 and also tortoise svn.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have some local changes that I want to keep, and wish they did not
>> show up
>>> in svn status.
>>>
>>> For example,
>>> on production
>>>        mail = "#users_real_email#"
>>> on dev machine
>>>        mail = "#fake_email_for_debugging#"
>>>
>>> I want subversion to ignore this difference when I do "svn status"
>> locally.
>>>
>>> < mail = "#users_real_email#"
>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> mail = "#fake_email_for_debugging#"
>>>
>>>
>>> But if there are other changes except for this, I want them to show upon
>>> "svn status".
>>>
>>> There is a need to change the file from time to time, so I don't want to
>> put
>>> the whole file in svn:ignore list.
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a feature in subversion or subversion-perl that allows me to
>> let
>>> subversion "ignore" only certain differences within a file?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Ben Kim
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Weintraub
>> qazwart_at_gmail.com
>
>
Received on 2010-03-29 22:02:50 CEST

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