Re: Git help for kernel archeology, suppress diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion

From: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date: Jul 22, 2007, 19:10 UTC
Message-ID: <9e4733910707221210t2b2896b5ob4ce7bf95d4a707a@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707221959100.14781@racer.site>

On 7/22/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> [culling lkml list, since this is really a Git problem]
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> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
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> > It would really be useful if git diff had an option for suppressing
> > diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion.
>
> Looks to me slightly a bit like an XY problem.
>
> How about using git-filter-branch to get rid of the expansions?  Or even
> better, if you have access to the CVS server, use the -k option to
> cvsimport?

No access to the server the people handing over the diffs and not making things easy. You get diffs like this when asking companies to turn over their changes for GPL compliance purposes. A big source is from companies building embedded systems., Usually the diffs are pretty worthless but every once in a while they contain very useful nuggets (like inadvertently documenting secret hardware features). It is hard to spot the nuggets in all of the noise.

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> Hth,
> Dscho
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Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com