more eol confusion: "diff" shows all lines differing :(

I suspect this issue has been addressed before, but after browsing the
archives for half an hour, I found nothing that was quite pertinent.

Anyway, using 0.24.2, I did these things:

* On a Unix box,

    svnadmin create /tmp/svn
    svn co file:///tmp/svn wc
    cd wc
    echo hello > hello
    svn add hello
    svn propset svn:eol-style native hello
    svn -m '' ci

* On a Windows box, I used a Windows client (TortoiseSVN 0.12.1) to
  check out a copy of that repository. Then I edited the working copy
  with Notepad, and added one line, and then did a "diff". I expected
  to see just the one new line, but instead, I saw all the lines
  differing. I'm not even sure there's a bug here, but it's
  inconvenient. I can think of a few alternatives:

* Perhaps TortoiseSVN shouldn't blindly compare the working copy
  against the text base, but should instead make a temp file
  containing the text base translated to native, and use WinDiff to
  compare that temp file against the working copy. (Actually I don't
  know if TortoiseSVN is doing the comparison itself, or if instead
  it's asking a subversion client function to do the comparison.)
  
* Perhaps subversion should make the text base have native line
  endings in the first place

* Perhaps I should quit whining and get a decent "diff" program

Just to spell it out:
  
  At a Cygwin bash prompt (mounted binmode):

        $ od -c hello
        0000000 h e l l o \r \n
        0000007

  This is what I expected; it shows that the Windows client properly
  put a carriage-return at the end of the line. But now

        $ od -c .svn/text-base/hello.svn-base
        0000000 h e l l o \n
        0000006

Can anyone suggest a comfortable way to view these kinds of differences?

-- 
Wasting programmer time is the true inefficiency, not wasting machine time.
        -- Paul Graham
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