On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > The original poster in this thread asked about using "svn cat" and > disabling the keywords: quite sensible, really. I'd like to see a > similar setting for "svn diff" It's not fair, to people who are not as > skilled with scripting and regexp as some of us, to convert the > "$Id:.$", Author, URL, Date, and whatever other keywords are active > into something sensible.
I think this is one of the very weak points of Subversion, and I don't even use keywords. When you do a diff between two versions that differ via line endings, you end up seeing a lot of changes. Yes, you can use your own diff command, but why? * Subversion should be able to do a diff to ignore line endings (or better yet, ignore line endings by default). You shouldn't have to specify your own diff program. * Subversion should be able to diff two versions and allow you to ignore properties. When I use --summarize, I can get 100 files changed. But, when I actually examine the files, only one or two are actually changed while the rest have a merge info property diff. Developers have complained about this over and over again. * It would be nice if Subversion could ignore RCS keywords when doing diffs. David Weintraub qazw...@gmail.com
