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Re: confusion over external svn diff and merge on windows

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 21:53:57 +0300

Adam Downer wrote on Wed, May 04, 2011 at 12:34:47 +0100:
> Ahh yes, I should have mentioned that I have tried this change already.
> Oops.
> Removing the "--" parameters passing to diff3 performs a three-way diff
> of the files passed. I am after a three way merge, so this would be more
> like what I am needing to specify.
>
> %DIFF3% %BASE% %MINE% %YOURS% -o %RESULT_FILE%
>
> Base being the file at the revision at which the branch was taken.
>
> Using exactly what is suggested does present the kdiff window, after
> complaining about having a -E passed to it. It does have source in the
> various panes, although I am uncertain if they are round the right way
> at this point (that is for me to work out later). And when I close the
> window (after resolving the conflicts) I am not presented with the
> option to resolve the merge conflict, so svn still thinks the file is in
> conflict.
>

If you just run 'kdiff3' from the shell prompt, do you get another shell
prompt before or after you close diff3?

It should be the latter.

> Regards
>
> Adam D
>
> > A glance at the man page for kdiff3 shows that it expects the three
> > files on the command line without options given in the SVN Book's
> > sample diff wrapper.
> >
> > http://linux.die.net/man/1/kdiff3
> >
> > Try changing
> >
> > %DIFF3% --older %OLDER% --mine %MINE% --yours %YOURS%
> >
> > to
> >
> > %DIFF3% %OLDER% %MINE% %YOURS%
> >
> > Steve
>
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