Re: svn diff ignores switches specified with `-x'

Garrett Rooney writes:
> Eric Hanchrow wrote:
>
> >This is the bug -- I expected svn diff to report no differences,
> >since I thought I told it to ignore whitespace.
> >
>
> this is a known problem. current versions of svn use our internal diff
> library, which doesn't have support for the various flags you used to be
> able to pass to gnu diff via svn's -x option. if you want those
> options, you can use the --diff-cmd option (i think that's the option, i
> might be wrong, as i don't have an svn install on this machine) use gnu
> diff instead of the built in diff library.

To always use external diff, you can put the following in your
~/.subversion/config file:

[helpers]
diff-cmd = /usr/local/bin/gdiff
diff3-cmd = /usr/local/bin/gdiff3
# This one depends on which version of gnu diff you have,
# check its man page (sorry, info file).
#diff3-has-program-arg = false

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