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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 22, 2007, 19:00 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707221959100.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910707221148g69d7600bk632abb7452ce9c7c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

[culling lkml list, since this is really a Git problem]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:

> 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?

Hth, Dscho

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