> I have some local changes that I want to keep, and wish they did not show > up in svn status. > > For example, > on production > mail = "#users_real_email#" > on dev machine > mail = "#fake_email_for_debugging#" > > I want subversion to ignore this difference when I do "svn status" > locally. > > < mail = "#users_real_email#" > --- > > mail = "#fake_email_for_debugging#" > > > But if there are other changes except for this, I want them to show upon > "svn status". > > There is a need to change the file from time to time, so I don't want to > put the whole file in svn:ignore list. > > > Is there a feature in subversion or subversion-perl that allows me to let > subversion "ignore" only certain differences within a file?
I think the most common way people do this is to create a template file and keep that in subversion. When a dev pulls down a working copy, they would copy the template file to the correct file name and edit it with their email address for example. http://subversion.apache.org/faq.html#ignore-commit BOb
