Andy - so when you want to diff a file it takes 25 minutes? 2009/12/23 Andy Levy <andy.l...@gmail.com>
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:21, Bob Archer <bob.arc...@amsi.com> wrote: > >> 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? > > 30 seconds is nothing, really. My primary app takes 25 minutes to > deploy into Tomcat whenever I'm doing a code/test cycle on my laptop. > If an extra step added 30 seconds, it'd make no difference to me. >
