On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 6:16 PM, Bob <spoon.reloa...@gmail.com> 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? Or is there some other way of using the svn client that > will achieve the same thing? As I understand, the file is stored in the > repository with keywords not expanded, and the client expands them when it > retrieves them, so shouldn't it be trivial to have a functionality to skip > this > step? > Thanks,
Keyword expansion is a religious argument amoung many source control systems. One approach to disable it, temporarily, is to unset the "svn:keywords", then revert the change. But that's tricky and begging to make mistakes.
