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

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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 22, 2007, 19:48 UTC
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On 7/22/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> But still, I think that it would be much better not to put this into Git.
> We do have diff gitattributes now, so that you can roll your own diff for
> specific files, but I still think that this is more a task for a
> standalone perl script.  Possibly being called from filter-branch to be
> done with the conversion once and for all times.
I can provide sample diffs if you want something to play with.
-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com
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