> 2009/12/23 Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> > > 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. > I think the current wisdom is, don't source control files that can > be generated. So, for the same reason you [usually] don't store > binaries that you build from your source don't store code files > that are generated. Make the generation part of the build so that > any dev running the build script gets the files generated for them. > > BOb > Thanks for both your input. > Ryan - is there a convenient place to hook in to the client side? I > would like to catch this prior it to being displayed as a > modification. > Bob - you are correct and I agree with you however the generation > process takes a while (30s - 1minute) and the controlled package > files are ghastly to diff from a code readability perspective. >
Hmm... I see. Can you possibly put the results of the genned code onto a shared location so the devs can just pull the latest down rather than needing to take... wait 30 SECONDS? Anyway, that is what I plan to do with the binaries that we build right now and put into our repo. The repo is just getting too bloated storing these binaries so next year I am going to modify our build to not source control them and put them in a "latest" folder so devs can grab them when needed. Then I get to play with dumpfilter and pull them out of my repository. BOb
