Re: svn diff -x -b

> Hello; I find it a bit unfortunate that svn diff doesn't understand -b
> (ignore whitespace) by default. It seems further unfortunate that in
> order to pass -b to diff, one must change from:
> svn diff foo bar
> to:
> svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x -ub foo bar
>
> Yes, it works, but it's annoying. :) Anyway, it'd be keen if the built-in
> differ could grok a larger subset of GNU diff's options, such as -b
> (ignore whitespace) and -p (show C function).

My suggestion: get aquainted with your shell. For example:

  $ alias svndiff='svn diff --diff-cmd diff -x -ub'
  $ svndiff foo bar

or:

  $ diffb='diff --diff-cmd diff -x -ub'
  $ svn $diffb foo bar

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Received on Sat May 28 02:53:40 2005