Re: Diffs from CVS keyword expansion

From: Uwe Kleine-Koenig <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Dec 5, 2006, 12:14 UTC
Message-ID: <20061205121443.GB2428@cepheus>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910611301956l6f64b01ftee46971a18e3467b@mail.gmail.com>

Hello Jon,

Jon Smirl wrote:

> Anyone have a nice script for suppressing diffs caused by CVS keyword
> expansion when someone checked the kernel sources into CVS?

I have a little script (called rmcvsid) in my private path, that just wraps a Perl oneliner:

	#! /bin/sh
	exec perl -i -p -e 's/\$(Id|Revision):.*?\$/\$$1: \$/' "$@";

This edits inplace all cvs keywords to be not expanded. If you call it for all files *before* you throw them into git, you don't need to suppress the diffs, because there are none.

You may have to add Source, Date and maybe others.

HTH Uwe

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Uwe Kleine-Koenig