RE: confusion over external svn diff and merge on windows

In an attempt to answer my own question I set my diff wrapper script to
simply echo the arguments passed to it into a txt file. I am aware that
in windows I only have access to the first nine args at a time. So I
echo args 1 - 9 and then shifted 9 times and echoed all 9 args again
(just to make sure I got them all).

The results on my first run were very surprising. I got the kdiff
complaint dialogue box!

Checking over my svn config revealed that diff-cmd and diff3-cmd also
need to be set to invoke my wrapper script as well as merge_cmd in order
for it to stop complaining. So now I need to write three different
wrappers to capture which args are being passed for each possible
invocation.

With that done I finally get a list of what args are being passed in
each scenario. Although it only appears to be calling the diff3_cmd
command during the merge and nothing else.

So the following is what I discovered the parameters are (in order):

-E
-m
-L
.working
-L
.merge-left.r63029
-L
.merge-right.r63498
project\.svn\tmp\tempfile.2.tmp
\tmp\tempfile.1.tmp
project\.svn\tmp\tempfile.tmp

So it seems that svn is passing the 'mine', 'theirs' and 'base' as the
last three vars as stated in the book. There is no obvious sign of a
specified result file so it seems that a cat/type is still required.
Based on these I throw them into vars (after some shifting for windows)
for passing to the kdiff3 executable:

MINE=%7 (project\.svn\tmp\tempfile.2.tmp) Target revision for
merging into. I am not sure if these are the right way round at this
point!
YOURS=%9 (project\.svn\tmp\tempfile.tmp) Source to be merged in.
BASE=%8 (\tmp\tempfile.1.tmp 63029 is the rev immediately before the
rang I am merging so this must be BASE)

So in the end the wrapper script needs to be (for kdiff3):

@ECHO OFF

REM Subversion provides the paths we need as parameters.
SET BASE=%8
SET MINE=%7
SET YOURS=%9

REM Call the merge command (change the following line to make sense for
REM your merge program).
%DIFF3% %BASE% %MINE% %YOURS% -o merged_result.tmp

type merged_result.tmp

But no Joy with this. The path \tmp\tempfile.1.tmp is causing trouble.
In windows it tries to open the file (with a dialog box appearing (what
program do you wish to use to open this)

So I hit 'l' to launch external merge prog.
This invokes the merge_cmd wrapper and passes a different set of args:

/tmp/tempfile.3.tmp
project/.svn/tmp/tempfile.tmp
project/.svn/tmp/tempfile.3.tmp
project/.svn/tmp/pom.xml.2.tmp
project/pom.xml

So now I am even more confused. I am still unable to find api docs or
anything on what the passed args should be. Could anyone hel with that?
I think I am close to making it work.

Thanks in advance

Adam D

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Received on 2011-05-06 12:33:41 CEST