On Dec 23, 2009, at 00:45, Julian Mitchell wrote: > The project that I am working on utilises a code generation tool. The header > of every source file includes a comment with a date\time stamp of when it was > generated. The problem is that every time the code is generated the svn > change check algorithm marks all files as having been changed even though > only a handful have actually had actual code changes. > > Is there a way to tailor the change check algorithm with, say, a regex, to > ignore certain contents of a text file e.g. comment lines?
To my knowledge, there is not. You could consider writing a client-side script that committers should run before checking in source, to normalize such comment lines e.g. to remove the date/time. You could also write a companion server-side hook script to reject any commit where the only difference is such a comment line.
