RE: svn diff does not ignore whitespaces

> From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez [mailto:raphel.garcia-suarez@hexaflux.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:23 AM

> Olaf Hering wrote:
>>
>> should this command ignore the white spaces? client has revision 5394
>>
>> svn diff -x -pubBw -r 5411:5418
>
> Hmm, if you don't use an external diff command (to be set in
> Subversion's config file or via --diff-cmd) apparently -x is ignored.
>
> I think that's a doc issue.

It is.

> I don't see the usefulness of -x when the internal diff is used.

I do. We might add stuff to the diff code to handle flags. Passing those
with -x would be great, because we don't want to clog up the top level
namespace with diff options.

>> svn help diff
>> -x [--extensions] arg : pass ARG as bundled options to GNU diff
>
> Shouldn't this be "external diff" instead of "GNU diff" ?

Yes.

Sander

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Received on Fri Mar 21 09:28:31 2003