On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:15:22AM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: > The point where this breaks is when you want to create a diff that can > be applied by plain-vanilla patch and will remove one file and add > another one. That case requires different output, and maybe > --show-copies-as-adds is the right option to use in that case (but I'd > prefer to call it "--patch" or something more semantically close to the > intended result).
You're probably looking for the --patch-compatible option which is new in 1.8. 'svn diff' has too many options, doesn't it :)