Re: [lazyweb] SVN checkout without keyword expansion?

[Giacomo Pati]

On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Hi all,
A lazyweb question about SVN: is there a way to perform a checkout without 
expanding the $Id$ keyword? I couldn't find one by googling around, and that 
would be so useful for merging branches where many files only differ by their 
revision number.

Currently I used a quickly hacked script that does the job, but that would be 
much cleaner to have it handled directly by svn.
I usually compare different branches by use of the following 
gnu diff command in a script:

diff -rubBd -x CVS -x target -x .svn -x .cvsignore -x .settings \
        -x .project \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Author: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Date: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Header: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Id: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Locker: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Name: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$RCSfile: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Revision: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Source: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$State: \
        --ignore-matching-lines=\\\$Version: $* $TARGET $SOURCE
It is suitable for CVS as well as for SVN. Hope this helps.
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Giacomo Pati
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