Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 15:57:46 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@vicor-nb.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, peter@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVS expansion question. Message-ID: <20020319235746.GY455@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <3C97CFB5.B2311029@vicor-nb.com> References: <3C97CFB5.B2311029@vicor-nb.com>
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* Julian Elischer <julian@vicor-nb.com> [020319 15:54] wrote:
> I need to compare a possibly modified version of a FreeBSD source tree
> with the checked out original FreeBSD tree in order to extract the
> diffs.
> (to recover work by someone else)
> When I do however, I get a diff for every file for $FreeBSD$
> and $Id: .
>
> This is because whatever checked out the original, did it expanding
> FreeBSD but not expanding $Id:
>
> How do I make my cvs server here do the same?
I'm not sure, but you can give diff an option to ignore certain
regex:
-I regexp
Ignore changes that just insert or delete lines
that match regexp.
so you can do:
cvs diff -u -I '$FreeBSD'
you can pass multiple -I options.
hope this helps.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
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start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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