How do I configure BeyondCompare to ignore SCM replaced text in comments?

Question

I do have some text sequences that are replaced by the SCM (Perforce in my case).

I do want to configure BeyondCompare to consider these sequences as unimportant differe

Answer 1

You need to define a new grammar element (let's call it "SCM") and mark it as unimportant (see the tutorial here; choose "Basic" and make sure to check "Regular Expression").

The grammar element should be (if I interpret your examples correctly):

^.*\$(Id|DateTime|Author|Change):.*$

This will ignore any line that contains $Id:, $DateTime: etc.

If you only want to ignore lines that start with # $..., use

^\s*#s*\$(Id|DateTime|Author|Change):.*$

And if you only want to ignore stuff between $ (and treat everything else as important), use

\$[^$\r\n]*\$

or

\$(Id|DateTime|Author|Change)[^$\r\n]*\$

depending on whether you care about those keywords or not.