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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Git help for kernel archeology, suppress diffs caused by CVS
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Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:00:36 +0100 (BST)
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Hi,

[culling lkml list, since this is really a Git problem]

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Jon Smirl wrote:

> It would really be useful if git diff had an option for suppressing
> diffs caused by CVS keyword expansion.

Looks to me slightly a bit like an XY problem.

How about using git-filter-branch to get rid of the expansions?  Or even 
better, if you have access to the CVS server, use the -k option to 
cvsimport?

Hth,
Dscho