Re: diff -u -b

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:29:50PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>
> I"m used to call diff with -u and -b as arguments, but I can't
> seem to get svn to accept that. When I try it I get:
>
> % svn diff -x -u -x -b vc-svn.el
> svn: The specified diff option is not supported
> svn: '-b' is not supported
> % svn diff -x "-u -b" vc-svn.el
> svn: The specified diff option is not supported
> svn: '-b' is not supported
> % svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x "-u -b" vc-svn.el
You almost have it here.

svn diff --diff-cmd=diff -x "-u -b" vc-svn.el
> Index: vc-svn.el
> ===================================================================
> svn: Error calling external program
> svn: 'diff' returned 255
> %
>
> [...]
>
> Oh now I found something:
>
> % svn diff --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff -x "-u -b" vc-svn.el
>
> That's pretty inconvenient. I shouldn't have to give the full path.
> And I think the built-in diff should accept the -b argument.
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
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