confusion over external svn diff and merge on windows

2011-05-04 Thread Adam Downer
Dear list, I am on windows and I am trying to use svn 1.6 on a cygwin command line to perform a merge of some code. I would also like to use the windows version of kdiff3 to help me out on this. I have read the book on this: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externaldifftool

RE: confusion over external svn diff and merge on windows

2011-05-04 Thread Adam Downer
Ahh yes, I should have mentioned that I have tried this change already. Oops. Removing the "--" parameters passing to diff3 performs a three-way diff of the files passed. I am after a three way merge, so this would be more like what I am needing to specify. %DIFF3% %BASE% %MINE% %YOURS% -o %RESUL

RE: confusion over external svn diff and merge on windows

2011-05-05 Thread Adam Downer
> > If you just run 'kdiff3' from the shell prompt, do you get another shell > prompt before or after you close diff3? > > It should be the latter. Good thought, it is the latter. PLEASE NOTE THAT WE HAVE MOVED. Our new a

RE: confusion over external svn diff and merge on windows

2011-05-06 Thread Adam Downer
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 sur

RE: Custom diff3 command

2011-06-20 Thread Adam Downer
You will need to write a wrapper script to perform this. Start here http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.advanced.externaldifftools.html and configure your subversion to kick off your custom wrapper. Manipulate the passed in args as you want them and output them to your diff prog. Ho

RE: Custom diff3 command

2011-07-26 Thread Adam Downer
Nope, besides, it will be a suitable send off for Jira to cause you a final bit of pain in using it J From: Adam Downer [mailto:adam.dow...@ri3k.com] Sent: 20 June 2011 16:39 To: Arpe, Kevin C; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: Custom diff3 command You will need to write a wrapper

RE: Custom diff3 command

2011-07-26 Thread Adam Downer
Apologies, responded to wrong email L From: Adam Downer Sent: 26 July 2011 14:03 To: Adam Downer; Arpe, Kevin C; users@subversion.apache.org Subject: RE: Custom diff3 command Nope, besides, it will be a suitable send off for Jira to cause you a final bit of pain in using it J From