On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30.07.2014 19:05, Ben Fritz wrote:
>> I want to use Beyond Compare or KDiff3 for a directory comparison,
>> when I use TortoiseSVN →Diff with URL. This would be much more usable
>> to me than the patch viewer, which also sometimes just errors out.
>>
>> I looked in the TortoiseSVN settings for Diff Viewer but didn't see
>> any relevant options, and a web search just turned up advice about
>> exporting the two URLs and diffing on the file system. Is there a
>> configuration option I'm missing? If not could this be added?
>
> You can not do directory diffs in TSVN, no matter what diff tool you're
> using. A diff of a directory always returns the diff of its properties,
> but never of its contents.
>
Actually that's not quite true.
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-diff.html
says under the heading "Difference between WC file/folder and a URL"
(and I've done this a couple times) that "Diff with URL" on a
working-copy folder will use TortoiseMerge to dispaly the difference
as if it were applying a patch. This isn't incredibly useful but
better than nothing.
More useful, for comparing 2 branches, is
http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-diff.html#tsvn-dug-compare-revs
which I just stumbled on while looking for that reference. I can
select two sibling directories in the repository browser easily and
compare them, showing a list of files that differ, and I can
double-click on each file to see the differences. This is the sort of
view I'm looking for.
But my use case is actually comparing a branch to the trunk. I cannot
figure out a way to select both the trunk directory and one of the
branches to use the "Compare URLs" feature of repository browser. Only
one item at a time can be selected in the left pane.
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Received on 2014-07-30 21:33:44 CEST