* Tom Lane ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Recently while adding $PostgreSQL markers to a bunch of .c and .h files > > I ran into trouble with the ecpg regression tests and had to revert the > > change for a handful of files. However, it occurred to me that we could > > have pg_regress tell diff to ignore such lines, by passing it the > > arguments "-I '\$PostgreSQL:' ", which would tell it to ignore > > additions or deletions of lines matching that regex. > > > Would this be a good thing to do? > > I'm inclined to think not. It's easy to think of scenarios where such > a switch would mask errors.
I tend to agree with this, though if people decide they want it, you
could almost certainly tighten up the regexp some to reduce the chance
of it masking things (eg: I assume a starting anchor ('^') would be
correct here, and you could almost certainly add the rest of the columns
which are included in the $Id$ format using appropriately-typed
wildcards, etc...).
Thanks,
Stephen
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