Hi,

what's the best way to filter out a certain type of file from svn diff output 
without having to use external tools such as filterdiff?

The project I'm working with insists on storing a lot of data files in ascii 
format in the repo, but users don't want to see diffs for these files.
I was thinking of changing the svn:mime-type on these to e.g. octet-stream, but 
will that affect how the database on the server handles these as well? That is, 
it would be nice if the server could still treat these files as text files and 
compress changes, but that the diffs are not shown to users.

Another option would be if there's some way to add exclude-patterns to svn 
diff, e.g. something like "svn diff --exclude-filepatterns '*.ascii'". Is 
anything similar to that available?
Or a similar exclude-functionality that could look for specific svn properties 
"--exclude-files-with-properties myasciifileproperty" so I can force a property 
"myasciifileproperty" on all these files

BR,
  Chris

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