Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote on Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 07:52:35 -0400: > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:16:59PM +0000, Bob wrote: > >> Hi, > >> If I do "svn cat" on a file, with the svn:keywords property set, it > >> expands out > >> SVN keywords such as $Date$, $Revision$, $Id$, etc., in the file (the ones > >> there > >> were included in the svn:keywords property anyway). Is there an option > >> that will > >> NOT do the expansion? > > > > Not in 1.6. > > > > I've added support for a --ignore-keywords option to svn export a while > > back. > > This will be released in 1.7. If you want to, you could file an issue > > requesting the same feature for 'svn cat', and we'll try to add it to > > 1.7 as well (the issue will make sure that we don't forget about it). > > See http://subversion.apache.org/issue-tracker.html > > > > Make sure to point to this thread within the mailing list > > archives from the issue, here's a link you can use: > > http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-08/0148.shtml > > I'd like to lend a vote for adding this to 'svn cat'. There are
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/general.html#patches > file-by-side comparison circumstances, particularly when authors have > been careless about setting "svn:keywords" correctly and submitted > source code from third party repositories, where it would be very > useful indeed. I once spent a very long term cleaning up a Linux > kernel codebase where the local maintainers had been very careless > about enabling or disabling svn:keywords, and the results in code > comparisons was nightmarish. You could have hacked together a small C/bindings script to collapse all keywords (from stdin to stdout). It's pretty easy. (and it's even easier to just run perl -pe 's/\$(Id|Rev):[^$]*$/\$$1\$/')
