On Aug 30, 10:09 pm, Stefan Küng <tortoise..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29.08.2009 02:29, Hari Krishna Dara wrote:
>
>
>
> > I have been working on a plugin for vim to invoke tortoisesvn commands
> > from with in vim. It works very nicely and I hardly ever go to the
> > windows explorer. Thanks a lot for supporting command-line options,
> > though it is meant as a GUI tool.
>
> > Now about the issue that I need help with, I am content with most of
> > the external dialogs that naturally result by executing tortoisesvn
> > commands (compared to executing the command-line client), but one
> > particular option that I would like to change is the diff command. I
> > would like to optionally be able to use vimdiff for 2-way and 3-way
> > diffs and so wondering if it is possible to specify the diff-cmd that
> > should be used for that invocation. I know that I can specify gvim as
> > the diff-cmd in the global settings, but that would result in starting
> > up a new gvim instance, but what I want is to be able to use the
> > original vim window from which the tortoisesvn command was issued
> > (which means, I need to embed the vim servername/windowname in the
> > diff command line). Is this possible using the "configdir" option ?
> > Starting from %APPDIR%\Subversion\config, I created a config under
> > c:\tmp that has only the below two lines:
>
> > [helpers]
> > diff-cmd = gvim --servername gvimtest --remote-tab-silent +"set
> > bufhidden=wipe | vert diffsplit %mine | wincmd x" "%base"
>
> The diff-cmd param in the config file is used only by the svn library
> when doing diffs that happen for updates/merges (*during* that
> operation). It's meant to be used if someone doesn't want to use the
> internal diff algorithm of svn but e.g. GNU diff or something like that.
>
> Since the diff-cmd option is for non-UI diff tools, TSVN disabled that
> option before doing an UI diff.
>
Thanks Stefan for the response .So, where does the diff command set in
the external commands part of settings stored? Only in the registry?
Is there anything that TortoiseSVN itself reads from the config file,
or is it merely passed down to the subversion library?
-- Hari
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