Re: Comparing source members -- WDSCI-L

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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?

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