Bryan Yeung <bryeung@gmail.com> writes:
> I would like to use gvimdiff to display the diff from svn diff. Is
> there a way to do this? Right now I get the following (from bash with
> 'set -x'):
>
> > + svn diff --diff-cmd=gvimdiff Tag.java
> > Index: Tag.java
> > ===========================================...=
> > 4 files to edit
> > E282: Cannot read from "-L"
>
> It looks like svn diff is not passing what I think it should be to
> gvimdiff. In fact, it looks like gvimdiff is trying to open "-L" as
> one of the files to be diffed.
>
> I took a quick look around google and in the svn book but I couldn't
> find any information about how svn calls the supplied diff command.
It really should be documented, you're right (patches welcome, of
course!). I think the relevant place to look is here:
http://www.endrun.org/xr/svn/source/subversion/libsvn_subr/io.c, in
the function svn_io_run_diff() (begins at line 1702). The diff_cmd
gets
-L label1 -L label2 frompath topath
as arguments, it looks like. So you should write a wrapper script to
absorb the arguments you don't need and/or transform them into ones
you can use. The wrapper would invoke your real diff program.
-Karl
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Received on Wed Nov 24 20:13:01 2004