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Re: Diffs from CVS keyword expansion

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JRJuergen Ruehle <j.ruehle@bmiag.de>
Date
Dec 1, 2006, 07:06 UTC
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Jon Smirl writes:
 > Anyone have a nice script for suppressing diffs caused by CVS keyword
 > expansion when someone checked the kernel sources into CVS?
I usually just say (with GNU diff)
  diff -I $$ ...

which is crude, but should be enough to get rid of the hunks listed by you.

You might also want -x CVS if you have the metadata files.
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