How to ignore CVS tags in comparisons?

[decairn]

Is there any way to make BC ignore CVS tags within source code when doing a comparison? It would need to be universal for all text type files checked into the tree.

For example, ignore "/* $Id: blah to end of line$ */"

The issue I am trying to resolve is one where we have merged between branches and there is no real change to a file, yet CVS insists it is so and creates a new revision. On check-out the only changes are the meta-CVS tag infos about who, when and revision; need to ignore these for effective comparisons.

[decairn]

Re: How to ignore CVS tags in comparisons?

Ignore.... found a thread below that lets me do what I need.

[Chris]

Re: How to ignore CVS tags in comparisons?

The easiest way to ignore CVS tags is to add Unimportant text for the rule.

In File Viewer, select Tools|Pick Rules|New Rules.
In the general tab, select file extensions to associate the rule with using semicolon as a separator ( example *.cpp;*.c;*.h ).

Go to the Importance tab.
Click New in the Unimportant Text section.
Select the Delimited Category.
Place $ in the Beginning with: and and ending with: sections.

This will ignore any text starting and ending with $ and $.

If you have $ characters ocurring in your code other than for CVS tags, you will probably need to use a regular expression for the text.

[decairn]

Re: How to ignore CVS tags in comparisons?

yes, that's what I did. The report is clean now.