How to ignore CVS keyword tags in eclipse diff

Question

As much as i like the eclipse diff/merge perspective, when dealing with large projects and multiple branches that need to be merged occasionally there's one feature missing:

Is there any way to set the eclipse diff to ignore the CVS tags like $Author:$, $Revision:$ and so on?

Since these tags are different in all the branches, a "compare to another branch" always results in a few hundred files showing up with differing tags but no apparent differences in the code. (of course tags differ only after fixing a bug in a few hundred files in branch and head. but that happens a lot where i'm working. no comments on that please.)

Courtney

Answer 1

This seems to be a known bug.

Lectureship

I was waiting for a workaround answer. But sigh yours is the only correct one as it seems. – Courtney

Sigh indeed. Almost 10 years since it was reported and still not sorted. Wouldn't be so bad if there was a decent work around or something, but as it stands the compare view is totally useless. – Irv

Answer 2

On the other hand, using keyword expansion with your SCM might be considered outdated procedure. here are some compelling arguments.

Tattoo

Yes, it does cause problems. But on the other hand when you're juggling a few thousand files, it occasionally helps to know what version of a file you are talking about. That moment usually comes when your versioning system chokes because someone deleted or moved the CVS meta info folders around. – Courtney