Exclude file types from SVN diffs?

[Chris]

Hi,

what's the best way to filter out a certain type of file from svn diff output without having to use external tools such as filterdiff?

The project I'm working with insists on storing a lot of data files in ascii format in the repo, but users don't want to see diffs for these files.
I was thinking of changing the svn:mime-type on these to e.g. octet-stream, but will that affect how the database on the server handles these as well? That is, it would be nice if the server could still treat these files as text files and compress changes, but that the diffs are not shown to users.

Another option would be if there's some way to add exclude-patterns to svn diff, e.g. something like "svn diff --exclude-filepatterns '*.ascii'". Is anything similar to that available?
Or a similar exclude-functionality that could look for specific svn properties "--exclude-files-with-properties myasciifileproperty" so I can force a property "myasciifileproperty" on all these files

BR,
Chris

[Branko Čibej]

Post by Chris
Hi,
what's the best way to filter out a certain type of file from svn diff output without having to use external tools such as filterdiff?
The project I'm working with insists on storing a lot of data files in ascii format in the repo, but users don't want to see diffs for these files.
I was thinking of changing the svn:mime-type on these to e.g. octet-stream, but will that affect how the database on the server handles these as well? That is, it would be nice if the server could still treat these files as text files and compress changes, but that the diffs are not shown to users.

The repository doesn't care if files are text or not; compression
(actually, binary delta storage) happens regardless. Specifically, the
server does not interpret the value of the svn:mime-type property in any
way.

Post by Chris
Another option would be if there's some way to add exclude-patterns to svn diff, e.g. something like "svn diff --exclude-filepatterns '*.ascii'". Is anything similar to that available?
Or a similar exclude-functionality that could look for specific svn properties "--exclude-files-with-properties myasciifileproperty" so I can force a property "myasciifileproperty" on all these files

Nothing like that is available.

If you do set the MIME type to something that's not "text/*", 'svn diff'
will still show the diff headers for changed files but won't show the
diff contents.

There is another way you could solve this: by using the --diff-cmd
option and writing a tool that ignores cretain files. Diff headers will
still be printed, though.

-- Brane

[Chris]

Hi Brane, thanks for the reply.
I'm ok with seeing the diff header as long as I don't have to see the content. I'll just change the mime-type of these files.

/Chris


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On Mon, 11/6/17, Branko Čibej <***@apache.org> wrote:

Subject: Re: Exclude file types from SVN diffs?
To: ***@subversion.apache.org
Date: Monday, November 6, 2017, 12:14 PM

On 06.11.2017 10:59, Chris

Post by Chris
Hi,
what's the best way to filter out a

certain type of file from svn diff output without having to
use external tools such as filterdiff?

Post by Chris
The project I'm

working with insists on storing a lot of data files in ascii
format in the repo, but users don't want to see diffs
for these files.

Post by Chris
I was thinking of

changing the svn:mime-type on these to e.g. octet-stream,
but will that affect how the database on the server handles
these as well? That is, it would be nice if the server could
still treat these files as text files and compress changes,
but that the diffs are not shown to users.

The repository doesn't
care if files are text or not; compression
(actually, binary delta storage) happens
regardless. Specifically, the
server does
not interpret the value of the svn:mime-type property in
any
way.
Another option would be if there's some way to add
exclude-patterns to svn diff, e.g. something like "svn
diff --exclude-filepatterns '*.ascii'". Is
anything similar to that available?

Post by Chris
Or

a similar exclude-functionality that could look for specific
svn properties "--exclude-files-with-properties
myasciifileproperty" so I can force a property
"myasciifileproperty" on all these files

Nothing like that is
available.

If you do set
the MIME type to something that's not
"text/*", 'svn diff'
will
still show the diff headers for changed files but won't
show the
diff contents.

There is another way you could solve this: by
using the --diff-cmd
option and writing a
tool that ignores cretain files. Diff headers will
still be printed, though.

-- Brane