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Re: can i svn cat without keyword expansion

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:23:21 +0300

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 07:35:42 -0400:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Stefan Sperling <stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 11:50:13AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> >> disabling the keywords: quite sensible, really. I'd like to see a
> >> similar setting for "svn diff"
> >
> > What use case do you have in mind that requires an --ignore-keywords
> > option for "svn diff"?
> >
> > "svn diff" already deals with keywords in contracted form.
> > Differences due to keyword expansion changing aren't being shown.
>
> Mixed histories with "svn:keywords" turned off, then on, for imported
> software that already has $Id$ or $Author$.
>

FWIW, implementing this shouldn't be too difficult: just to change the call
to the stream translation routines, such that instead of contracting only
some keywords (depending on the file) they would contract all keywords.
Received on 2010-08-09 17:26:09 CEST

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