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Re: External diff tool not used when diff'ing images

From: Simon Large <simon.tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 20:58:45 +0100

On 25 July 2014 17:26, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 25.07.2014 02:15, Jonathon wrote:
>> When I right-click on a modified PNG image file and select "SVN Diff"
>> it always opens TortoiseIDiff instead of my external diff tool (which
>> is set to use BeyondCompare). It uses my specified external diff
>> tool for other file types, but not for PNGs. It may have the same
>> problem with any file type but I only use PNGs so I can't speak to
>> that.
>>
>> This is a new problem when I updated to the latest version of
>> tortoisesvn (1.8.7). I didn't used to have this problem with the
>> previous version of tortoisesvn I had installed (unfortunately I
>> didn't check which version I had installed before I installed the
>> latest).
>>
>> How do I get tortoisesvn to obey my external Diff tool setting for
>> PNG files? The beyondcompare image diff feature is much better than
>> TortoiseIDiff so I want it to use beyondcompare as I have specified.
>>

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>> I have tried explicitly telling tortoisesvn in the "Settings" panel
>> to use beyondcompare specifically for the .png file extension (under
>> "Advanced settings...") but tortoisesvn just ignores my external diff
>> setting when diff'ing PNG files no matter what I try.
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>> Is this a bug?
>
> No, it's not. And it has always worked that way, ever since
> TortoiseIDiff existed.
> You have to specify your diff tool for the png extension and/or the png
> mime type separately. Since most diff tools only deal with text, image
> file extensions automatically use TortoiseIDiff unless you specified
> another diff tool for that extension:
> Settings->Diff Viewer->Advanced...
> Add..
> enter ".png" for the extension and your diff tool in the box below.

That's what he said he tried.

Simon

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