On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@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 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.
