RE: Viewing diffs in unified format in vim

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From: bd_at_bc-bd.org [mailto:bd_at_bc-bd.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 8:28 AM
To: users_at_tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Viewing diffs in unified format in vim

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:00:43AM -0400, Tim Schultze wrote:
> On my system, I put the following in my External Diff line:
>
> C:\Program Files\Vim\Vim71\gvim.exe -d -g %base %mine
>
> And it appears to work fine (at least in simple cases). What do you
> mean by "unified format?"

Well a diff in unified diff format:

        - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_diff#Unified_format
        - man diff, search for -u

I am attaching 3 files, foo, bar and a diff between those two:

 # diff -u foo bar > diff

If you run svn diff you will get a unified diff.

        Stefan
[Tim Schultze]
So you want to run the command line version of diff, right? The GUI version
of vim doesn't support unified diff, IIRC.

I can't remember if you said you tried a batch file or not but it seems that
a batch/command file is your most straightforward answer. Pass the two
parameters (in quotes) on the command line to the batch file, run the
command line diff -u on those two parameters piping to a temporary file,
then fire up vim to view the temporary file, and (perhaps) after that,
delete the temporary file.

Tim

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