Are you aware that svn can use any 3rd-party external differencing
tool? A lot of tools out there know how to do word-differencing.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 3:36 AM, Riccardo Poli <ProfRPoli_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently written a book with two colleagues (CCed) using
> subversion as our revision control system (our sources were Latex,
> Bibtex and postscript/pdf files). (Incidentally, the book is freely
> available on the internet from http://www.gp-field-guide.org.uk/)
>
> Subversion was wonderful, but we found one significant problem. One of
> us was using an editor which would keep an entire paragraph as a
> single very long line of text. This meant that a clash, say caused by
> a very small change in the paragraph, would result in subversion
> reporting a difference in a large chunck of text without any
> indication of exactly which bit of the text had caused the clash.
>
> This is the result of diff doing linewise comparisons. I wonder if it
> would be possible to get subversion to work at the word level (i.e.,
> ignoring line breaks). This feature is available in emacs where one
> can do ediff between two regions in wordwise mode (see ediff-regions-
> wordwise command vs ediff-regions-linewise). I think it would be nice
> if subversion realised that lines above a certain length are difficult
> to compare visually, and went into a wordwise mode to help spot the
> differences.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> Riccardo
>
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