Re: Diffs from CVS keyword expansion

On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Juergen Ruehle wrote:

Jon Smirl writes:
 > Anyone have a nice script for suppressing diffs caused by CVS keyword
 > expansion when someone checked the kernel sources into CVS?

I usually just say (with GNU diff)

  diff -I $$ ...

which is crude, but should be enough to get rid of the hunks listed by
you.

You might also want -x CVS if you have the metadata files.

Also, if you are actually _using_ CVS to check it out, use

	cvs co -ko

I think, to not check out with keyword expansion at all.

(Also usable with "cvs diff -ko", I think)

		Linus

PS. Clueless user alert: I have happily not used CVS in years and years,