* Julian Elischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020319 15:54] wrote:
> I need to compare a possibly modified version of a FreeBSD source tree
> with the checked out original FreeBSD tree in order to extract the
> diffs.
> (to recover work by someone else)
> When I do however, I get a diff for every file for $FreeBSD$
> and $Id: .
> 
> This is because whatever checked out the original, did it expanding 
> FreeBSD but not expanding $Id:
> 
> How do I make my cvs server here do the same?

I'm not sure, but you can give diff an option to ignore certain
regex:

       -I regexp
              Ignore changes that just  insert  or  delete  lines
              that match regexp.

so you can do:

cvs diff -u -I '$FreeBSD'

you can pass multiple -I options.

hope this helps.

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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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