Svn diff command - ignoring of specific lines

Question

Is there any way to make svn diff command ignore some specific lines in a source code file, so consider this as not a changes?

Particular line numbers or particular line contents? Note that you can use --diff-cmd to specify the command used to do the diffing, so you could always write your own diff command. — John Carter
– John Carter, Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 8:35
Can you give a bit more detail of what you're trying to do? Another possibility would be post-processing the output to remove the lines you don't care about (eg svn diff | grep -v foo). — John Carter
– John Carter, Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 8:38
Basically, I need to ignore lines in some specific file with changes located only in expressions like "line=123". This changes are not giving any useful information when I see svn diff output, so I'd like to make svn diff ignore such changes. — user769398
– user769398, Commented Aug 8, 2012 at 8:42

Augusto · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-08 08:33:07Z

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You can only ignore white spaces. Read the svn manual for more information: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.ref.svn.html

answered Aug 8, 2012 at 8:33

Augusto

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