Hi Sam,
does this work for you?
svn diff --diff-cmd=/usr/bin/diff -x --unified=3
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Sam Steingold <sds_at_gnu.org> wrote:
> How do I supply the number of context lines for unified diff?
>
> $ svn diff --help
> seems to imply that "svn diff -x --unified" is what I need.
> However, there seems to be no way to pass "--unified=1" to the external
> diff program:
>
> $ svn di -x '--unified 1' my-file-name
> svn: Invalid argument '1' in diff options
> $ svn di -x --unified 1 my-file-name
> svn: '1' is not under version control
> $ svn di -x --unified -x 1 my-file-name
> svn: Invalid argument '1' in diff options
> $ svn di -x --unified=1 my-file-name
> svn: Error parsing diff options: Missing parameter for the specified
> command line option
> $ svn di -x --unified 1 my-file-name
> svn: '1' is not under version control
> $ svn di -x -u1 my-file-name
> svn: Error parsing diff options: Bad character specified on command line
>
> thanks!
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Received on 2011-04-01 23:32:55 CEST