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SubjectRe: Git help for kernel archeology, suppress diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion
On 7/22/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >
> > It would really be useful if git diff had an option for suppressing
> > diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion.
>
> I really think it's not a "git diff" issue, but it might be a "import"
> issue.
>
> IOW, I think you'd be a *lot* better off just not importing those things
> in the first place (which is what CVS does internally), or possibly
> importing them as two trees (ie you'd have the "non-log" version and the
> "log expansion" version, so that you can track and compare both).
>
> Doing the thing at "diff" time is certainly possible, but this is simply
> much better done as a totally independent preprocessing phase. The diff
> handling is already some of the more complex parts (and very central), it
> would be much simpler and efficient to not try to make that thing fancier,
> and instead solve the problem at the front-end.

These diffs are coming from companies doing GPL compliance without
really wanting to comply. CVS servers are not made available.


>
> Linus
>


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Jon Smirl
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