Re: Comparing source members

[Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Luis Colorado wrote:
> Vern, you wrote:
>
> The RSE Extensions are next best for me, but they strip 
> the source sequence and source change date. Sequence is not such a 
> big deal, but change date can be. That will be a loss, in my view, 
> when going to editing in IFS and using subversion, etc.
>
> Subversion doesn't use the RSE extensions. When you use Subversion (and I assume that the same applies to CVS) you keep the sequence number and change dates. The merge is really easy to use. 

I haven't been stripping the dates/sequence numbers when committing my 
source to Subversion, but I had thought that I would want to if I 
started versioning all my source instead of just my own work on a 
particular project.

The reason I'd want to strip the date/sequence is to avoid "false 
positives" when comparing two versions.  I'm thinking of the sort of 
thing that Vern mentioned earlier, in which I the sequence numbers or 
dates of some lines change without the actual code changing.  Is there 
some way to tell the Subversion server to ignore the first X bytes when 
calculating the diff?