Re: Git help for kernel archeology, suppress diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion

On 7/22/07, Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

[culling lkml list, since this is really a Git problem]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:

quoted

It would really be useful if git diff had an option for suppressing
diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion.

Looks to me slightly a bit like an XY problem.

How about using git-filter-branch to get rid of the expansions?  Or even
better, if you have access to the CVS server, use the -k option to
cvsimport?

No access to the server the people handing over the diffs and not
making things easy. You get diffs like this when asking companies to
turn over their changes for GPL compliance purposes. A big source is
from companies building embedded systems., Usually the diffs are
pretty worthless but every once in a while they contain very useful
nuggets (like inadvertently documenting secret hardware features). It
is hard to spot the nuggets in all of the noise.

Hth,
Dscho

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Jon Smirl
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