[TSVN] Re: external diff and changing file extensions

>Just to clarify some thing here (since others already told you how to
>solve this problem):
>TortoiseSVN does _not_ change the extension of the file, it does _not_
>pull the file from the repository and it does _not_ put it in
>.svn\text-base\!

Of course you are right, and it seems so obvious now I'm not sure why I
was confused about what was happening.

Since the only program I can find that will diff Word documents from the
command line is CSDiff, and it wants both files to have .doc extensions,
I've cobbled together the following in a .bat file that I'm using as the
external diff program for things with a .doc extension:

copy %1 c:\temp
ren \temp\*.svn-base temp.doc
"C:\Program Files\Component Software\CSDiff\CSDiff" c:\temp\temp.doc %2

It's an ugly hack, but it works for me. I'd really rather know how
CSDiff is opening Word in Compare and Merge mode, but I've not found any
clues about how they are doing that.

Anyway, thanks to everyone for their help.

Mike

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Received on Fri Feb 11 20:28:10 2005