The problem I see with this is that I am now tightly coupled to Subversion as my source control tool.
2009/12/23 Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> > 2009/12/23 Julian Mitchell <jup...@gmail.com>: > > 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? > > > > I have scanned the FAQs and googled to no avail. > > > > Use svn:keywords, and let svn to generate the timestamp for you. > > $Id $ keyword (UTC time, not localized) or $Date $ keyword (local > time, and localized month/day of week names, unless you truncate it) > > If you commit immediately after generation, the timestamp generated by > svn will be not so different from the one generated by your tool, and > only modified files will be committed. >
