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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Sander Striker <st...@apache.org> on 2003/02/20 22:37:27 UTC

RE: svn commit: rev 4998 - trunk/doc/book/book

> From: fitz@tigris.org [mailto:fitz@tigris.org]
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 10:58 PM

>  $ svn -v status
> @@ -89,14 +91,14 @@
>            <term><option>--extensions</option><replaceable>"ARGS"</replaceable></term>
>            <listitem>
>              <para>Specifies an argument or arguments that Subversion
> -              should pass to GNU diff when providing diffs.  Note
> -              that if you wish to pass multiple arguments, you must
> -              enclose all of them in quotes.  For example,
> -              <command>svn diff -x "-b -E"</command>.  Note also
> -              that Subversion will display unified diffs by default,
> -              so if you want default diff output, you can pass the
> -              <option>--normal</option> switch to diff
> -              (e.g. <command>svn diff -x "--normal"</command>.
> +              should pass to GNU diff when providing diffs. If you
> +              wish to pass multiple arguments, you must enclose all of
> +              them in quotes (for example, <command>svn diff -x "-b
> +              -E"</command>).  In addition, Subversion will display
> +              unified diffs by default, so if you want default diff
> +              output, you can pass the <option>--normal</option>
> +              switch to diff (e.g. <command>svn diff -x
> +              "--normal"</command>.
>                </para>

Err, no, this doesn't work anymore.  svn diff -x 'blah' just drops the -x 'blah'
part.  svn diff --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff -x 'blah' on the other hand... ;) :)

Sander


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