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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jul 22, 2007, 23:50 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707230048570.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910707221645x21d74e70y3c43bc8c02a9d4ca@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:

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> On 7/22/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > As you already did, this is my attempt at a perl script...  Feel free to
> > bash my Perl capabilities, or to correct it...
> 
> I don't really know Perl but Perl is probably a better language for
> this. I was doing it in C.

Yes, Perl is much much better for an application like this. You do not have to cater for newbies, but can keep it to the technical level.

> This doesn't run on the two full kernel samples I sent you.

You mean my script?  Or your C program?

> That's the problem I was having, I can catch 95% of the expanded 
> keywords with my program but I have to touch up 5% by hand. I'll stare 
> at this and see if I can increase my understanding of Perl.

If it is my script, please tell me what is not working. I'll fix it. In the process, I could even add some comments...

Ciao, Dscho