On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > 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 <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 > > 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\$/')
Which works fine on a file by file basis, but is bloody awkward to weave into 'svn diff' commands: the commands will be reported as distinct in such a mishmoshed "svn:keywords turned on in this branch, mis-set in that branch" mess. It was nasty to deal with.