Hello Stefan,
Don't you log a ticket in the issue tracking system for this feature?
Justin
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> De: "Justin M." <m.just1_at_free.fr>
> À: "dev" <dev_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org>
> Envoyé: Mardi 28 Octobre 2014 22:12:59
> Objet: Re: Advanced diff settings: problem with mime-types
>
> Stefan,
> Glad to see that this problem is of interest to you. I hope that you
> could find
> a compromise that you could pack up in a future release of
> TortoiseSVN. If you
> don't, please inform the user that the mime-type recognition does not
> work from
> the "show log" dialog.
> For the moment I will exclusively use the extension as a way to
> launch specific
> diff tools.
>
> Justin
>
>
> Le 28/10/2014 19:42, Stefan Küng a écrit :
> > On 27.10.2014 16:27, Justin M. wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I wanted to report a possibly buggy behaviour of TortoiseSVN about
> >> the advanced diff settings.
> >>
> >> Here is the issue: When I define a program for a particular
> >> extension, let's say .pdf, TortoiseSVN correctly opens the
> >> specific
> >> program when I choose "Diff" or "Diff with previous version" from
> >> the
> >> contextual menu of Windows. It also works as expected when the
> >> diff
> >> is launched for the "Show log" window. On the contrary when I
> >> define
> >> a program for a mime-type, let's say application/pdf, TortoiseSVN
> >> still correctly opens the specific program when I choose "Diff" or
> >> "Diff with previous version" BUT always opens TortoiseMerge when
> >> the
> >> diff is launched for the "Show log" window. You understand that
> >> the
> >> user parameters are probably ignored when a mime-type is defined
> >> (and
> >> not a file extension) and when the diff is started from the log
> >> view.
> >> Is this what TortoiseSVN is expected to do?
> > The problem here is that the mime-type is only known by TSVN if it
> > can
> > read it from a working copy.
> > The log dialog is a dialog that uses remote data, directly from the
> > repository. So it does not know about the working copy.
> > Reading the svn:mime-type property from the repository can take a
> > few
> > seconds, and that's why that is not done. However without that
> > information, when doing the diff it doesn't even know the mime-type
> > of
> > the file and therefore the specified diff tool is not used.
> >
> > I will try and find a way to get the mime-type info remotely as
> > well
> > without slowing down the whole diff command too much.
> >
> > Stefan
> >
>
>
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