Is there a metadata exclusion filter for the SVN DIFF command?

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driAn picture driAn · Dec 31, 2008 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

I use SVN as the source control system, and I wonder how to compare directories while ignoring any metadata differences. Is there a way to tell svn diff to compare only the actual content and ignore any metadata?

I mean metadata like SVN properties, etc. that don't affect the file content. Assume file X has an additional property in branch B compared to trunk T. Unfortunately it will show up in 'svn diff T B' even though the actual content of file X is the same.

I look for something like this:

svn diff https://example.org/tags/v1 https://example.org/tags/v2 -x -ignore-metadata --summarize

Update: I partially solved this by diff'ing directly on the filesystem instead of using the SVN tools. See my own answer below...

Answer

user183745 picture user183745 · Oct 3, 2009

You can pass the svn diff output through 'filterdiff --clean' to remove any extraneous lines including property changes.

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