David Weintraub wrote on Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 13:24:02 -0400: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The original poster in this thread asked about using "svn cat" and > > disabling the keywords: quite sensible, really. I'd like to see a > > similar setting for "svn diff" It's not fair, to people who are not as > > skilled with scripting and regexp as some of us, to convert the > > "$Id:.$", Author, URL, Date, and whatever other keywords are active > > into something sensible. > > I think this is one of the very weak points of Subversion, and I don't > even use keywords. > > When you do a diff between two versions that differ via line endings, > you end up seeing a lot of changes. Yes, you can use your own diff > command, but why? > > * Subversion should be able to do a diff to ignore line endings (or > better yet, ignore line endings by default). You shouldn't have to > specify your own diff program. >
svn diff -x--ignore-eol-style, and I believe in trunk this can be specified via ~/.subversion/config too. > * Subversion should be able to diff two versions and allow you to > ignore properties. When I use --summarize, I can get 100 files > changed. But, when I actually examine the files, only one or two are > actually changed while the rest have a merge info property diff. > Developers have complained about this over and over again. > Agreed; ignoring svn:mergeinfo in diffs, logs, etc., has been often requested. > * It would be nice if Subversion could ignore RCS keywords when doing diffs. If the syntax is like our existing $Foo: .*$ keywords, this shouldn't be too hard. > By the way, there is tools/diff/diff.c in our trunk. (You can build it with 'make tools' or 'make diff' I believe.)
