Re: Problems with diff3 on win32

Karl Fogel <kfogel@newton.ch.collab.net> writes:

> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> > I'm trying to support my boss and a co-worker with SVN clients on win32.
> > They keep coming across situations (from working with the same code)
> > where an "svn up" requires merging updates and local changes. Diff3
> > keeps exiting with error 2 and leaves the merge incomplete. I've tried
> > several versions of diff3 including the one from unxutils.sf.net, aswell
> > as the latest 0.13.0 binaries.
> >
> > Anyone able to shed some light on this? I have no win32 environment in
> > which to test this, nor can I do any debugging and building.
>
> I've never seen this happen before, can't shed any light.
>
> But if we had a full repro recipe (even one that requires their
> environment), it would be more information, maybe we could figure it
> out from looking at the data...

Could it be the SVN_DIFF3_HAS_DIFF_PROGRAM_ARG stuff? If the svn
binary passes --diff-program to diff3 version 2.7 then diff3 will
fail. On the other hand, if svn fails to pass --diff-program to diff3
version 2.8 then diff3 may fail to invoke diff.

-- 
Philip
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