On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:38:26PM +0200, Daniel Näslund wrote: > Since r958537, there is a diff extension switch to enable git diffs: > > svn diff -x --git-diff [-g] > > In hindsight, I'm not sure that was the best thing to do. I read this > part from svn help diff: > > [[[ > -x --extensions ARG : Default: '-u'. When Subversion is invoking an > external diff program, ARG is simply passed > along to the program. But when Subversion > is using its default internal diff > implementation, or when Subversion is > displaying blame annotations, ARG could be > any of the following: > ]]] > > I thought that --extensions would just extend the diff format and could > be usable only from within the internal diff application (we don't pass > on the information needed for creating git diffs to the external diff > tool) but the svn book says: > > [[[ > --extensions (-x) ARGS > > Specifies an argument or arguments that Subversion should pass to an > external diff command when providing differences between files. If you > wish to pass multiple arguments, you must enclose all of them in quotes > (for example, svn diff --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff -x "-b -E"). This switch > can only be used if you also pass the --diff-cmd switch. > ]]]
Reverted r958537. I will use a regular command line switch instead. Daniel
