Re: svn diff --diff-cmd and unknown diff options

Vincent Lefevre <vincent+svn@vinc17.org> writes:

> The diff command used in svn diff --diff-cmd doesn't necessarily have
> the same options as GNU diff. When using svn diff --diff-cmd docdiff,
> I got:
>
> Index: contents/research/extended.en.xml
> ===================================================================
> docdiff: ambiguous option: -L
>
> There should be an option to remove the options normally used by
> Subversion.

Actually, we recommend that folk just wrap their diff commands with a
script that can ignore the options that don't make sense for that diff
tool. I'll note here, though, that it was brought to my attention
just today that we don't appear to document anywhere what that list of
options is, which makes it kinda hard for folks to know what to expect
(and therefore, what to use/ignore).

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Received on Sat Aug 21 06:42:31 2004