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Re: Feature request: Allow creating patches without working copy

From: Tobias Schäfer <tobiasschaefer_at_gmx.de>
Date: 2007-08-22 17:15:25 CEST

On Wednesday 22 August 2007 10:27:12 Alexander Klenin wrote:
> This would be a convenient feature to allow
>
> TortoiseProc.exe /command:createpatch /path:<old-file> /path2:<new-file>
>
> This syntax works well for diff command.
> Right now path2 is not allowed and thus it is impossible to create a
> patch without a working copy.

This is not as easy to implement as it may seem. TortoiseSVN uses the diff
functionality supplied by the subversion library. This does not allow to
compare two arbitrary files. I guess this a "won't implement".

Tobias 

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