On Aug 8, 2010, at 8:50 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Blair Zajac <bl...@orcaware.com> wrote: >> >> On Aug 6, 2010, at 3:16 PM, 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? 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, >>> >> >> Do you want to do this for all files in a checkout or just get a file? If >> the later, you can use curl or wget if you're using http:// or https:// >> scheme. > > The original poster in this thread asked about using "svn cat" and > disabling the keywords: quite sensible, really.
Who said anything about not providing this feature? I would find it useful when I do diffs also. This was just a workaround if you needed a single file without keywords. For a trees worth, of course, it would be painful to script to do a checkout without keyword expansion. Blair
