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Re: Diff Question.

From: Ryan Schmidt <subversion-2008c_at_ryandesign.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 04:16:24 -0500

On Sep 5, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Gavin 'Beau' Baumanis wrote:

> On 06/09/2008, at 10:27 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> On Sep 5, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Gavin 'Beau' Baumanis wrote:
>>
>>> I was just wondering how others coped when trying to compare two
>>> revisions of a file, but diff (whether it be a GUI-tool or "svn
>>> diff" shows the entire document as being 1 big difference?
>>
>> And why does the diff tool do that?
>>
>> One reason is differing line endings. If so, then convert the one
>> version of the document to the same line ending style as the other
>> version and compare again.
>>
>> Or you can use the "ignore whitespace" option to diff.
>>
>> If your files differ on every line for a reason other than
>> whitespace, please explain.
>
> I have tried the following, but it still returns the entire file as
> being different, is there something obvious I am missing?
>
> svn diff /svn/trunk/project/filename.cfm -r head:2136 -x --ignore-
> eol-style -x -w
>
> I even tried using the repository instead of the local WC, but it
> returned the same.
>
> svn diff http://192.168.10.95/svn/trunk/project/filename.cfm -r
> head:2136 -x --ignore-eol-style -x -w

Try:

svn diff /svn/trunk/project/filename.cfm -r head:2136 --diff-cmd
diff -x -ub

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