On 06.11.2017 10:59, Chris wrote: > 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.
The repository doesn't care if files are text or not; compression (actually, binary delta storage) happens regardless. Specifically, the server does not interpret the value of the svn:mime-type property in any way. > 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 Nothing like that is available. If you do set the MIME type to something that's not "text/*", 'svn diff' will still show the diff headers for changed files but won't show the diff contents. There is another way you could solve this: by using the --diff-cmd option and writing a tool that ignores cretain files. Diff headers will still be printed, though. -- Brane
