Re: diff with --diff-cmd errors out

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael L Brown <michael.l.brown@philips.com> writes:

    Michael> I get an error when trying to do the following:
    Michael> soldev57.ZCURR <148> svn diff --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff -x
    Michael> "-C 1" ReleaseFileList
 
    Michael> Index: ReleaseFileList
    Michael> ===================================================================
    Michael> /usr/bin/diff: illegal option -- L usage: diff [-bitw]
    Michael> [-c | -e | -f | -h | -n] file1 file2 diff [-bitw] [-C
    Michael> number] file1 file2 diff [-bitw] [-D string] file1 file2
    Michael> diff [-bitw] [-c | -e | -f | -h | -n] [-l] [-r] [-s] [-S
    Michael> name] directory1 directory2 svn: '/usr/bin/diff' returned
    Michael> 2

    Michael> I personally prefer context diffs and tried to do what
    Michael> the manual suggests, but as you can see from the above,
    Michael> it appears that svn is passing a -L option to diff and it
    Michael> is falling over because of it. Any way to fix that?

Install the GNU version of diff. It has context diffs and supports -L.

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