Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 07:52:35 -0400:
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:16:59PM +0000, Bob wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> If I do "svn cat" on a file, with the svn:keywords property set, it expands out
> >> SVN keywords such as $Date$, $Revision$, $Id$, etc., in the file (the ones there
> >> were included in the svn:keywords property anyway). Is there an option that will
> >> NOT do the expansion?
> >
> > Not in 1.6.
> >
> > I've added support for a --ignore-keywords option to svn export a while back.
> > This will be released in 1.7. If you want to, you could file an issue
> > requesting the same feature for 'svn cat', and we'll try to add it to
> > 1.7 as well (the issue will make sure that we don't forget about it).
> > See http://subversion.apache.org/issue-tracker.html
> >
> > Make sure to point to this thread within the mailing list
> > archives from the issue, here's a link you can use:
> > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-08/0148.shtml
>
> I'd like to lend a vote for adding this to 'svn cat'. There are
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general.html#patches
> file-by-side comparison circumstances, particularly when authors have
> been careless about setting "svn:keywords" correctly and submitted
> source code from third party repositories, where it would be very
> useful indeed. I once spent a very long term cleaning up a Linux
> kernel codebase where the local maintainers had been very careless
> about enabling or disabling svn:keywords, and the results in code
> comparisons was nightmarish.
You could have hacked together a small C/bindings script to collapse all
keywords (from stdin to stdout). It's pretty easy.
(and it's even easier to just run perl -pe 's/\$(Id|Rev):[^$]*$/\$$1\$/')
Received on 2010-08-07 14:14:01 CEST