On Sep 8, 2008, at 5:58 AM, Gavin 'Beau' Baumanis wrote:
> On 08/09/2008, at 7:16 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> That seems to have worked!
>
> I assume it is the -b as opposed to the -w that did it?
>
> I.e. -w was too relaxed an option?
-uw instead of -ub would be fine too.
The problem was you didn't tell svn diff that you wanted to use an
external diff command, and what the name of that external command
was. So it was still using the internal diff implementation, which
does not support the whitespace-ignoring arguments you were sending it.
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