Re: svn diff non-temporary files option

Branko Čibej wrote on Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:21 +0100:
> No; because 'svn diff' hides differences in end-of-line style and
> keyword expansions, it has to preprocess the files in the working copy,
> and it sends those preprocessed files to the external diff wrapper.
>
> We could theoretically skip that part for files that don't have
> svn:eol-style or svn:keywords properties, but then the tool invocation
> would be inconsistent.
>
> Your best bet is to use an editor that has Subversion support built in.

Or we could add some context information in argv[8] of the diff-cmd to
make it easier for them to be intelligent. (Right now only 1..7 are used, IIRC)
Received on 2018-02-07 16:50:28 CET