I wrote a script that allows you to filter svn diff output to exclude changes based on metadata and file names (or anything else on the first line that can be greped).
I wrote it to remove all of the “properties” changes and filter out the output files, so all that was left was the code changes and a list of binary files that were modified.
Just pipe the output of svn diff to the script, after you set the parameters at the top of the script. I put the filters in the script instead of parameters because I always run the same filters.
It is released under the GPLv2 (the licensing details is longer than the script itself).
clean_svn_diff.bash
This software is licensed under the CC-GNU GPL version 2.0 or later.
File this one in the totally random thought category, but I pulled this gem out of my journal over the weekend:
Truman once said he wanted a one-arm economist, “so he couldn’t say ‘on the other hand’.” I have an MA in economics, so I should hedge, but on the other hand, I only have an MA, so I should “half-hedge” (that “hedging my hedging” bit should earn me a PhD on its own). I am also an Episcopalian, which means that on the one hand, I am Anglican and hedging is that most Anglican of instincts, but on the other hand, the Episcopal Church will take up some principles as long as they aren’t in the Bible, so I’ll half hedge from that.
On the other hand (and if the Hindus are right, I will be coming back as an octopus: eight hands and no backbone), I’m not going to hedge as much as present some “gradient alternatives”, especially when I talk about policy. I’ll call this the “better sex-education” argument – you should be abstinent until marriage, but if your aren’t going to be, condoms are better than birth control pills, which are in turn better than nothing. Since we could replace the public school system with a million better alternatives, and still be screwed by the system, I think this is the perfect analogy.
