I need to merge a forked project.
Unfortunately, the CVS $Id lines are different so the merge tools I tried report that all the files are different (and 95% of them have only this line different)
Is there a merge tool that can be configured to ignore line comparison results based on a pattern ?
[edit]
I discovered that WinMerge has line filters - setting up them correctly actually works.
Francesco
I use meld, which can use regex filters to ignore.
It has some preset ones you can select including CVS keywords.
The regex it uses for that BTW is:
\$\w+(:[^\n$]+)?\$
You can get meld on any linux distro or
download from here: http://meld.sourceforge.net/
I'm not sure how it's supported on windos,
but I do know kdiff3 supports windows so you could
give it a try there: http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
well you could use
cvs update -kk
whick does not expand the $words.
of course this is still a problems the $log which is expanded on commits and not updates.
CompareIT allow to use regular expression matching. I used it for automatically generated code comparison and it was very useful.