Schrom.Brian wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>My apologies if this has already been answered, I just haven't found it yet.
>
>Whenever my svn client tries to invoke an external program (diff, diff3,
>etc), Windows XP starts a process and runs the command,
>
No, Subversion starts a process and runs the diff command, not Windows XP.
> but drops the
>parameters somewhere, so I get something similar to the following:
>
What do you mean, drops the parameters somewhere? You asked for a diff
between two directories, so that's what you're getting.
>C:\cygwin\bin>svn diff
>http://fe406507.engineering.com:8080/svn/vstepper/branches/dev663@13
>http://fe406507.engineering.com:8080/svn/vstepper/branches/dev663@14
>Index: gui/gui_lib.lib
>===================================================================
>Binary files gui/gui_lib.lib (revision 13) and gui/gui_lib.lib
>(revision 14) differ
>svn: Error calling external program
>svn: d:\cygwin\bin\diff.exe returned 2
>
This has nothing to do with "dropping parameters". GNU diff returns
error code 2 when it's given binary files to compare.
--
Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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Received on Thu Mar 13 23:22:44 2003